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  • 1.  Register for SAA's Introduction to PREMIS Course in Conjunction with CIMA Annual Meeting

    Posted Apr 16, 2021 05:25 PM
    Edited by Carlos Salgado Apr 16, 2021 05:25 PM

    This is a one-day course covering the background, purpose, structure and use of the Data Dictionary and XML schema products of PREMIS, a preservation metadata initiative and maintenance activity based at the Library of Congress. Students will learn about the background of PREMIS, what constitutes preservation metadata, and gain some basic experience creating a PREMIS instance of preservation metadata.

    Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

    • Describe the general development timeline/context of PREMIS and its purpose.
    • Explain preservation metadata in the context of PREMIS.
    • Explain the PREMIS data model and core concepts.
    • Utilize the PREMIS Data Dictionary in creating PREMIS instances.
    • Produce a conformant PREMIS instance of core preservation metadata.
    • Analyze their present metadata infrastructure to locate already-present and missing core PREMIS semantic units.
    • Create change at their institution by promoting the incorporation of PREMIS metadata into their metadata infrastructure.

    Who Should Attend archivist practitioners, archivist managers, archivist administrators, IT professionals, librarians, records managers

    What You Should Already Know A basic understanding of data markup technologies (tags, HTML/XML) is recommended, but not required.

    Date: April 28, 2021 (Pre-conference Course to the CIMA 2021 Annual Meeting)
    Credit: 1 TOOLS AND SERVICES credit towards your A&D and DAS Certificate(s)

    Location: Online via Zoom
    Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Central

    Register on the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists (CIMA) website at https://cima.wildapricot.org/event-4128619

    Registration Closes April 20.

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