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The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata provides a comprehensive and widely implemented specification that is revised based on concrete experience and changing technological environments. In addition, it gives the preservation community a common data model for organizing and thinking about the information you need to preserve digital objects. It has become the de facto standard for preservation metadata and is built into many preservation repository systems, both open-source and commercial, such that essential preservation activities can be accomplished. This chapter reviews the development of PREMIS, now in version 3.0, its supporting maintenance activity, its goals, principles and scope, its relationship to OAIS, and it introduces the features of the Data Dictionary. As a shared community standard the PREMIS Data Dictionary is flexible, extensible, and provides for interoperability among repositories of digital objects, systems that support the preservation process, and data that are exchanged and reused.
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Guenther, R.S., Dappert, A., Peyrard, S. (2016). An Introduction to the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Digital Preservation Metadata. In: Dappert, A., Guenther, R., Peyrard, S. (eds) Digital Preservation Metadata for Practitioners. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43763-7_3
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