March 2000:
OCLC and RLG jointly sponsor international working group on preservation metadata
Identify key
issues/challenges
Seek consensus
on recommendations and best practice
White paper
(January 2001)
Defined
preservation metadata; role in preservation process
Reviewed/synthesized
existing preservation metadata schemes
Preservation
metadata framework (June 2002)
Comprehensive
description of types of information constituting preservation metadata
Based on OAIS
information model
Set of
prototype preservation metadata elements