Kathryn CassidySoftware Engineer, Digital Repository of IrelandTrinity College Dublin

What metadata do we need for

preservation?

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Rich Descriptive Metadata

Contextual Information

• Data collection methodology• Questionnaire and survey questions• Consent forms

Rights and Reuse information• Rights statement• Licence• EUIPO Orphan Works Database File number

Information about Organisations

• Funders• Data producer• Copyright holder• Contact point that will be valid at an arbitrary future date

Access Control Information

• Embargoes• Access Control Lists• Permitted use• Who is permitted to edit, update and modify• Who is permitted to grant permissions

Administrative & Technical Metadata• Structural metadata• File characterisation information• Checksums• Locations of copies• Passwords and Encryption keys

Provenance Information• Provenance of the object before ingestion• Provenance after ingestion

• Track all changes and modifications• Track preservation actions

• Consider using PREMIS or other standard format

Other• Linked Data• Crowd-sourced or User-generated metadata• Anything else that might add value in the future

What does the Digital Repository of Ireland require?• Description• Rights• Type• A person• A date

• Some additional Technical and Administrative fields

Encouraging quality metadata

http://www.dri.ie/publications

DRI Presents: Introduction to Metadata

DRI Presents Introduction to

Metadata

What preservation metadata does your repository

capture?

Thank you!

Repository.dri.ie@dri_ireland

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