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METADATA FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION : THE CEDARS PROJECT OUTLINE SPECIFICATION DRAFT FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION The Cedars Project Team and UKOLN March 2000 Introduction A major component of the work encompassed by the Cedars project is the development of a metadata framework which will enable the long-term preservation of digital resources. This metadata is required to support meaningful access to the archived digital content and includes descriptive, administrative, technical and legal information. This document describes the metadata elements which the Cedars project has identified as being useful to ensure that digital library resources can be archived and used in the future. No assumptions are made about particular methods of implementing this specification, although it is envisaged that the metadata will be stored digitally. Purpose of this Document The purpose of this document is twofold. The primary purpose is to provide the Cedars Demonstrator Project with a basic set of preservation metadata elements to implement as part of a pilot digital archive which will be based on the Cedars
Kelly Russell, Derek Sergeant, Andy Stone, Ellis Weinberger and Michael Day, with thanks to Mr John Wells 1 Cedars OUTLINE SPECIFICATION - DRAFT FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION 2 Demonstrator Project system and architecture.1 The Cedars Demonstrator Project will contain a wide variety of digital materials (representative of digital library collections) and it is therefore necessary that this specification be generally applicable.2 It is not expected that the project will implement this outline specification fully as there will be sections of the metadata where discussion is still necessary before implementation will be possible. Where this is the case the