PREMIS: Preservation Metadata Maintenance Activity The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is the international standard for metadata to support the preservation of digital objects and ensure their long-term usability. Developed by an international team of experts, PREMIS is implemented in digital preservation projects around the world, and support for PREMIS is incorporated into a number of commercial and open-source digital preservation tools and systems. The PREMIS Editorial Committee coordinates revisions and implementation of the standard, which consists of the Data Dictionary, an XML schema, and supporting documentation. Data Dictionaries & Schemas Maintenance Guidelines and Conformance Implementation and Tools Supporting Documentation The PREMIS maintenance activity is responsible for maintaining, supporting, and coordinating future revisions to the PREMIS data dictionary. and RLG The PREMIS 3.0 data dictionary was issued in June 2015.
How to Request a MARC Organization CodeMARC Code List for Organizations (Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress) >> Go to MARC Organization Code Request Form NOW << Before making a request for a new code, search the MARC Organization Code database first to see if a code has already been assigned. CLICK HERE to go to the search interface. Complete the request form (link to form is below) for each separate organization for which MARC code is needed. The Library of Congress will assign a MARC organization code to any organization that needs one, regardless of size. The codes are used in union catalogs to identify holding libraries and in MARC records to relate a record or specific information in a record to an organization. Please provide as much of the information below as possible.
SDMX ? Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives About the Program Libraries, archives, and cultural institutions hold millions of items that have never been adequately described. This represents a staggering volume of items of potentially substantive intellectual value that are unknown and inaccessible to scholars. The Council on Library and Information Resources administers this national effort with the generous support of The Andrew W. The primary criterion the review panel uses to evaluate projects is their potential national impact on scholarship and teaching. All nonconfidential information that applicants supply is made publicly available through CLIR's Hidden Collections Registry. Although the program does not provide funds for the creation of digital surrogates of cataloged materials, CLIR hopes that many funded projects will ultimately be enhanced with publicly accessible digitized versions of the newly cataloged collections. Join our Mailing List We occasionally send announcements and news about this program by e-mail.
Metadata You Say You Want a Resolution: How Much DPI/PPI is Too Much? Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Preserving digital stuff for the future is a weighty responsibility. With digital photos, for instance, would it be possible someday to generate perfectly sharp high-density, high-resolution photos from blurry or low-resolution digital originals? Probably not but who knows? The possibility invites the question: shouldn’t we save our digital photos at the highest resolution possible just in case? In our Library of Congress digital preservation resources we recommend 300 dpi/ppi for 4×8, 5×7 and 8×10 photos but why not 1000 dpi/ppi? Recently we received a comment at the Signal in response to a blog post in which the commenter expressed concerns about our ppi/dpi resolution recommendation. Barry Wheeler, one of the experts who responded, is a photographer, staff member of the Library of Congress and one of the digital photograph preservation researchers for the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative.
Nesstar - Publish Data on the Web Interview with Rae Tyson, Artpark Visual Arts Coordinator, 1974-1978 | Art Spaces Archives Project Interviewer: Sandra Q. Firmin, Curator, UB Art Gallery Person Interviewed: Rae Tyson, Artpark Visual Arts Coordinator, 1974-1978 Preface The following oral history transcript is the result of a recorded interview with Rae Tyson on March 18, 2011. Rae Tyson and Sandra Q. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Interview SANDRA FIRMIN: This is an interview with Rae Tyson, conducted by Sandra Firmin, for Art Spaces Archives Project for the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. RAE TYSON: I became involved in Artpark in the late spring of 1974, when I was contacted by then executive director, Dale McConathy, who asked me if I would be interested in joining the staff for Artpark, to help plan and coordinate and execute the outdoor programs. FIRMIN: And you were working at the Wilson— TYSON: I was a schoolteacher, taught science in Wilson Central School, which is a rural school district about fifteen miles from the Artpark site.