CA Strength of a metadata structure lies in its ability to layer and exchange information from a wide variety of creators in a "loosely coupled system of organization." This review covers metadata literature from mid 1996 through early 1998. It focuses on the development and application of metadata standards used by the LIS community for resource description, discovery and retrieval within a digital environment.
Annual Review of Information Science and technology
Periodical Abbreviation
ARIST
Publication Year
2001
Volume
35
Pages
337
Critical Arguements
CA Yakel gives an overview of the literature on digital preservation from the early 1980s through 2000.
Phrases
<P1> The immediate question is whether the industry will adopt these standards, strategies, and functional elements to create evidence-based recordkeeping systems that ensure their authenticity and reliability. If the model of the DOD guidelines is any indication, some sectors of the vendor population will respond to recordkeeping specifications if there is sufficient customer leverage. Recordkeeping requirements rely on various metadata schemes and the viability of standards. (p.366) <warrant>
Conclusions
RQ More research into the hybrid approach (emulation and migration) is needed to determine criteria that will ensure the preservation of authenticity and reliability.
Type
Web Page
Title
Metadata for preservation : CEDARS project document AIW01
This report is a review of metadata formats and initiatives in the specific area of digital preservation. It supplements the DESIRE Review of metadata (Dempsey et al. 1997). It is based on a literature review and information picked-up at a number of workshops and meetings and is an attempt to briefly describe the state of the art in the area of metadata for digital preservation.
Critical Arguements
CA "The projects, initiatives and formats reviewed in this report show that much work remains to be done. . . . The adoption of persistent and unique identifiers is vital, both in the CEDARS project and outside. Many of these initiatives mention "wrappers", "containers" and "frameworks". Some thought should be given to how metadata should be integrated with data content in CEDARS. Authenticity (or intellectual preservation) is going to be important. It will be interesting to investigate whether some archivists' concerns with custody or "distributed custody" will have relevance to CEDARS."
Conclusions
RQ Which standards and initiatives described in this document have proved viable preservation metadata models?
SOW
DC OAIS emerged out of an initiative spearheaded by NASA's Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. It has been shaped and promoted by the RLG and OCLC. Several international projects have played key roles in shaping the OAIS model and adapting it for use in libraries, archives and research repositories. OAIS-modeled repositories include the CEDARS Project, Harvard's Digital Repository, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the Library of Congress' Archival Information Package for audiovisual materials, MIT's D-Space, OCLC's Digital Archive and TERM: the Texas Email Repository Model.
