PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata

At the turn of the millennium no clear digital preservation metadata recommendation existed. Various element sets had been released by different organizations, but all served different scopes and purposes. By 2002 it became clear that a central Preservation Metadata Framework could significantly benefit the community and give it a lingua franca, not only allowing us to build interoperable workflows but also to better compare preservation processes. This preservation metadata should include, in a rigorously defined yet technically neutral way, all core information pieces an institution would need to know about a digital object they want to preserve for the long-term. Out of this need the international PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) working group was kicked-off in June 2003. In 2006 the PREMIS working group was superseded by the PREMIS Editorial Committee, who continues to maintain and promote the standard and interact with the digital preservation community today.

The editorial committee is leaning into their institutions' professional development and travel funding to ensure they can meet and focus on doing the work to advance and promote PREMIS - oftentimes doing this by coordinating meetings around shared conferences. Any funding that would be provided to the community would help to fund the PREMIS editorial committees travel - either to conferences to promote PREMIS, to F2F tutorials about PREMIS or to meetings so improvements can be made to PREMIS.