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Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) is a working
group sponsored by OCLC and RLG.  The focus of PREMIS is on the
practical aspects of implementing preservation metadata in digital
preservation systems.  One part of our charge is to develop a core set
of preservation metadata with wide applicability within the digital
preservation community.  Another part is to examine alternative
strategies for implementing preservation metadata.

To help us understand what the community is doing, we have sent a survey
on implementation to organizations in the library, academic, museum,
government, and scientific sectors known to be developing, running, or
planning to utilize a digital preservation repository.  It is intended
to
discover:

a) the different goals and characteristics of digital preservation
repositories,

b) various administrative and technical models for digital preservation
repositories, and

c) how preservation repositories are encoding, storing and managing
their preservation metadata.

Survey results will be used by PREMIS in our analysis of implementation
strategies, and will also be published in summarized form.  Individual
repositories and projects will not be identified without permission. We
hope the results will benefit the entire community.

The Implementation Survey is available on the PREMIS website at
http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/. If your organization is involved in
digital preservation and did not receive a survey by email, please
download a copy and return the completed survey no later than January
16.  There are instructions on the website.

Thanks very much,

Priscilla Caplan
Rebecca Guenther
co-chairs, PREMIS