http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/metadata+preservation PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/26667 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/26667 The PREMIS Editorial Committee is pleased to announce the release of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.0. This document is a revision of Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final report of the PREMIS Working Group, issued in May 2005. The PREMIS Data<br />Dictionary and its supporting documentation is a comprehensive, practical resource for implementing preservation metadata in digital archiving systems. Preservation metadata is defined as information that <br />preservation repositories need to know to support digital materials over the long term. http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18260 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/18260 &quot;The National Library of New Zealand is pleased to announce the open-source release of version 3.2 of its Metadata Extraction Tool.<p>The Metadata Extraction Tool programmatically extracts preservation metadata from a range of file formats including PDF documents, image files, sound files, office documents, and many others. It automatically extracts preservation-related metadata from digital files then outputs that metadata in XML. It can be used through a graphical user interface or command-line interface.&quot;</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/9346 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/9346 OCLC's website for the PREMIS working group<br /> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/9345 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/9345 LC's site for ongoing PREMIS activity<br />