The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is the international standard for metadata to support the preservation of digital objects and ensure their long-term usabaility. Developed by an international team of experts, PREMIS is implemented in digital preservation projects around the world, and support for PREMIS is incorporated into a number of commercial and open-source digital preservation tools and systems. The PREMIS Editorial Committee coordinates revisions and implementation of the standard, which consists of the Data Dictionary, an XML schema, and supporting documentation.
News and articles:
- PREMIS Implementation Fair at iPres 2012 in Toronto
- PREMIS - Version 2.2 Now Available
- PREMIS - Schema 2.2
- PREMIS at Graz, Austria: Digitale Bibliothek 2011
- DAITSS (Dark Archive in the Sunshine State) software is available
- PREMIS at iPRES 2011
- PREMIS Owl ontology available for public review
- PREMIS at Archiving 2011
PREMIS Implementors' Group Forum (pig@loc.gov):
An unmoderated listserv open to members of the PREMIS implementor community. To subscribe to the forum:
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- PREMIS 2.2
- PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.2 (PDF:3.38MB/272pp.)
This publication includes the PREMIS Introduction, the Data Dictionary, Special Topics, Methodology and Glossary. The data dictionary and report with supporting documentation are also available as separate documents: - PREMIS Data Dictionary, version 2.2 (PDF:1.01MB/227pp.)
The PREMIS Data Dictionary for core preservation metadata needed to support the long-term preservation of digital materials. - PREMIS Introduction and Supporting Documentation, version 2.2 (PDF:285K/51pp.)
Provides information on the background, objectives, data model, implementation and other supporting documentation for the PREMIS Data Dictionary. - PREMIS Data Dictionary Entity Hierarchical Listing, version 2.2
A hierarchical list by PREMIS semantic unit. - PREMIS Schema 2.2
- PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.2 (PDF:3.38MB/272pp.)
- PREMIS 2.1
- PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.1 (PDF:1.23MB/233pp.)
- PREMIS Data Dictionary, version 2.1 (PDF:776K/193pp.)
- PREMIS Introduction and Supporting Documentation, version 2.1 (PDF:285K/51pp.)
- PREMIS Data Dictionary Entity Hierarchical Listing, version 2.1
- PREMIS version 2.1 Sample Records
- PREMIS version 2.1 Changes
- PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.1 (PDF:1.23MB/233pp.)
- PREMIS 2.0
- PREMIS Data Dictionary, version 2.0 (PDF:1.1MB/184pp.)
- PREMIS Data Dictionary, version 2.0 (Japanese)
translated by Masamitsu Kuriyama (Mr.) (PDF:1.4MB/220pp.) - PREMIS Data Dictionary, version 2.0 (Spanish)
translated by Lorea Elduayen and Bárbara Muñoz de Solano (PDF:3.4MB/237pp.)
- PREMIS 1.0
- PREMIS and METS
- PREMIS Conformance (PDF:1.71K/6pp.)
- PREMIS Data Dictionary and Schema Revision Process
- PREMIS Editorial Committee
- PREMIS Implementors' Group (PIG)
- PREMIS Implementation Fairs
- PREMIS Implementation Registry
- PREMIS Resources: Articles and Presentations
- PREMIS Schemas
- PREMIS Tools
- PREMIS Tutorials
- Understanding PREMIS by Priscilla Caplan for the Library of Congress: an overview of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata (PDF:543K/26pp.)
Also available in:
French: Comprendre PREMIS (PDF:226K/26pp.)
German: PREMIS verstehen (PDF:321K/28pp.)
Italian: Capire PREMIS (PDF:141K/25pp.)
Spanish: Entender PREMIS (PDF:363K/30pp.)
- Comments
The PREMIS maintenance activity is responsible for maintaining, supporting, and coordinating future revisions to the PREMIS data dictionary. The Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies Working Group, convened
by OCLC and RLG , initially developed the PREMIS data dictionary as a specification with the goal of creating an implementable set of "core" preservation metadata elements, with broad applicability within the digital preservation community. Supporting XML schemas allow for implementation of the core metadata element set and are maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress.
The PREMIS 2.1 data dictionary and schema were issued in January 2011. The PREMIS 2.0 data dictionary and schema were issued in April 2008.
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