Dear WG subscribers,

Below you will find a revised (as well as the existing) charter of our
Working Group.  The new charter was reviewed and accepted at the DC
Advisory Board meeting in Madrid.  Please note also that there has been
a change of chairs:  Andrew Wilson has stepped down and John Kunze from
the California Digital Library will be the new co-chair.

Please provide comments on the proposed new charter to this email list
by the end of October.  We will come back with a more detailed workplan
early in November.

Thanks.

John & Heike



--- proposed new (revised) Preservation Working Group charter ---

The DCMI Preservation Working Group is a discussion forum for individuals and
organizations that are interested in metadata related to digital
preservation.
As a focus for discussion, over the course of a year this group will
deliver a
6-page overview of the landscape of emerging preservation metadata standards,
preservation frameworks, and the relationships of those standards to the DCMI
view of metadata.

This analysis will consider:

(a) the semantic scope of preservation metadata compared with generic
resource
description metadata,

(b) a comparison of models underlying emerging preservation metadata
standards
with the DCMI abstract model, and

(c) a list of requirements for creating a DCMI Preservation application
profile.





--- old Preservation Working Group charter ---

(a) collect information on, and review, existing preservation metadata
schema.
(see Related Work below)

(b) investigate the need for domain specific preservation metadata schema.

(c) liaise with other global preservation metadata projects such as
PREMIS, as
appropriate.



Dr. Heike Neuroth
Research & Development     -     DINI secretary
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/     -     http://www.dini.de/
Goettingen State and University Library (SUB)
Papendiek 14
37073 Göttingen

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