The Digital Preservation Coalition has commissioned a series of Technology Watch reports on themes known to be of key interest to DPC members. The authors of the Technology Watch Report on Preservation Metadata (PDF 209KB) - Brian Lavoie, OCLC, and Richard Gartner, University of Oxford - agreed to lead an informal meeting of DPC members, many of whom have an active interest in this area..
Attendance was open to DPC members only and there was no charge. Numbers were limited to a maximum of thirty, to allow scope for interaction.
An overview of the meeting is provided by Michael Day's presentation (PDF 121KB)
Presentations in the meeting:
- Brian Lavoie: Preservation Metadata: Setting the Scene (PDF 148KB)
- Richard Gartner: An Introduction to METS (PDF 172KB)
- Taylor Surface: Implementing Preservation Metadata: The OCLC Digital Archive Experience (PDF 660KB)
- Brian Lavoie: PREMIS and Preservation Metadata Standards (PDF 225KB)
- Taylor Surface and Paul Ayris: Registry of Digital Masters (PDF 998KB)