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The National Library of New Zealand released the first iteration of its preservation metadata schema in November 2002 after a substantial period of international peer review. A revised version was made available in June 2003 incorporating advances in NLNZ thinking based on further experience, and ensuring compliance with emerging standards, eg the new version is more closely aligned with NISO Z39.87 Technical Metadata for Still Images. The second phase in developing a preservation metadata process has been creation of a data model for implementation. The data model was released in July 2003. It is based on the logical preservation metadata model (Revised version) and maintains the overall structure and data relationships contained there. It is intended to provide a step towards the implementation of a repository for preservation metadata. As part of this work XML schema definitions of the data model were also developed. All of the above documents can be accessed from http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/whatsnew/4initiatives.html#meta. The National Library of New Zealand welcomes any feedback on this work. Regards Steve Steve Knight Digital Library Transition Co-ordinator Electronic Services National Library of New Zealand P O Box 1467 Wellington 6001 New Zealand ph. 64-4-474-3142 email [log in to unmask]