DIGITAL PRESERVATION – MUSEUM ARCHIVES – TECHNICAL HARMONISATION -BRITAIN
January 1st, 2005
BY MARK ROWE
IT is a sign of how pressing the issue of converting archive material into digital format has become that, not only does a British national award exist for digital preservation, but that last year (2005) the prize was awarded for a guide on how to create and use digital materials.
The GBPounds 5,000 Digital Preservation Award went to PREMIS - the Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies Working Group. This team of 30 experts from five countries published a Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata and other tools to provide guidance for ...
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