Metadata

Question 1

The Big Question

Answer 1

How do you make sure you can read your stuff in 100 years?

Question 2

OAIS

Answer 2

Open Archival Information System

Archive standard for storage of data in digital form

Question 3

OAIS Information Package

Answer 3

Subset of data that is important to digital archiving.

Question 4

Submission Information Package

Answer 4

(SIP) Info that is submitted with the data that is going to be archived at the point in time the submission is made

Question 5

Archival Information Package

Answer 5

(AIP) Information package used by the archive during the period of time the data is in the archive

Question 6

Dissemination Information Package

Answer 6

(DIP) Used as portions of the information in the archive is shared with others.

Question 7

Parts of an Information Package

Answer 7

1) Content Information
2) Preservation Description Information
3) Packaging Information
4) Descriptive Information

Question 8

Parts of Content Information Package (CIP)

Answer 8

1) Content Data Object
- - Data object being preserved as bit stream
2) Representation Information
- - Structural Metadata
- - Semantic Metadata

Question 9

Content Information Package

Answer 9

(CIP) Holds information about the structural and semantically content of the archive

Question 10

CIP Structural Data

Answer 10

the format and/or data structures that makes the bitstreams into something valuable like characters, numbers, arrays, encodings, etc

Question 11

CIP Semantic Data

Answer 11

the meaning, English prose, human oriented data that is readable

Question 12

CIP Content Data Object Description

Answer 12

Human readable data structure description.

Question 13

CIP Environment Description

Answer 13

Description of the software and hardware environment the data/program is compatible for.

Software includes OS and Rendering Program Data

Hardware includes Storage, Computational Resources, and Peripherals

Question 14

Parts of Preservation Description Information (PDI)

Answer 14

1) Reference Information
2) Context Information
3) Provenance Information
4) Fixity Information

Question 15

PDI Reference Information

Answer 15

Contains reference data:

• -Archival System Identification
• -Global Identification
• -Resource Description

Question 16

PDI Context Information

Answer 16

Contains context of the data’s existence

• -Reason for Creation
• -Relationships between this and other objects

Question 17

PDI Provenance Information

Answer 17

Contains the context of the data structure's lifespan
Answers these questions:
--Where did the object originate? 
--How was it created? 
--History before Ingest? 
--Process of Ingest?
--History of Archival?
--Rights management?

Question 18

Description of PDI Provenance Events

Answer 18

Events described by:

• -Name
• -Procedure
• -Date
• -Responsible Agency
• -Outcome
• -Notes

Question 19

ISO Specification for Archiving Data

Answer 19

ISO/IEC 11179

Specification and Standardization of Data Elements

Question 20

XML Archival Schema

Answer 20

OASIS Registry/Repository (for XML Schemas)

Question 21

Common Metadata Representation Standards

Answer 21

• -XML
• -XML Schema
• -OWL
• -RDF
• -Dublin Core
• -XML METS
• -VERS
• -AIP
• -MOF

Question 22

Necessary Elements for Successful Creation and Evolution of Metadata Registry

Answer 22

1) Initial creation of metadata schemata
- -Very important this is done well
- -Software will be developed to access the registry
- -Don’t want the software to be rewritten as the registry evolves
2) Subsequent creation of new metadata must be a controlled process
- -Do not get too radical of changes
3) Process must be developed for the Long Term controlled evolution, maintenance, and use of metadata schemata
4) Tools must be in place to support the development and evolution of and control of the metadata registry.