PREMIS Editorial Committee releases study on rights information in the
PREMIS data dictionary
The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office is
pleased to announce the availability of a study written by Karen Coyle on
how rights information needed for digital preservation activities is handled
in the PREMIS data dictionary.
The Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) Working Group
developed the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, which is a
specification containing a set of "core" preservation metadata elements that
has broad applicability within the digital preservation community. It
constructed a data model that defined entities involved in the preservation
process and their relationships. One of the entities in this data model is
rights statements, which specify terms and conditions for using the objects
in a preservation repository. The PREMIS Working Group chose to consider
only rights required for preservation activities in scope for its work,
rather than rights for access. Because of the ambiguity of the laws
concerning intellectual property rights and the complexity in the roles that
institutions play in digital preservation in relation to access, it was
difficult for the Working Group to thoroughly cover all information needed
about rights to preserve in the data dictionary.
The Library of Congress, as part of the PREMIS maintenance activity,
commissioned Karen Coyle to provide this study to assist the newly
established PREMIS Editorial Committee, in consultation with the PREMIS
Implementers Group, with its first revision of the data dictionary and
schemas. The intention is to improve the specification so that institutions
trying to assess their rights to preserve materials in digital formats will
be able to provide enough information in their digital repositories to make
such assessments about their materials over time. In this study Karen Coyle
reviews the landscape of digital rights, analyzes various preservation
rights scenarios and the sorts of preservation actions that digital
repositories might take, relates copyright law to preservation actions, and
provides recommendations for revision where the data dictionary needs
expansion.
The report, Rights in the PREMIS Data Model, is available at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/Rights-in-the-PREMIS-Data-Model.pdf
Further information about the PREMIS Maintenance Activity is at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/
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Rebecca S. Guenther
Senior Networking and Standards Specialist
Network Development and MARC Standards Office
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