Library information provider OCLC Research, US, and the Open Planets Foundation (OPF) are conducting a Preservation Health Check pilot to analyse the quality of preservation metadata created and in use by operational repository and deposit systems and evaluate the potential of such metadata for assessing digital preservation risks.
As part of this pilot, the organisations are holding a Preservation Health Workshop at the PREMIS Implementation Fair (iPRES2012) at the University of Toronto on October 2, 2012. This workshop will explore the use of real life preservation metadata for risk assessment, introduce and discuss the concept behind the preservation health check pilot and propose an approach for mapping preservation metadata schemas with preservation risk assessment frameworks and walk through a number of examples.
Digital preservation practitioners and researchers/experts are invited to come to the workshop with real life examples of preservation metadata. It is expected that this exercise will help build a better shared understanding of the why, what and how preservation metadata are collected and created.
