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This message is being posted to multiple lists; please excuse the duplication. 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