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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/ Distributed for Rebecca S. Guenther Senior Networking and Standards Specialist Network Development and MARC Standards Office 1st and Library of Congress (202) 707-5092 (voice) (202) 707-0115 (FAX) rgue@xxxxxxx by |