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PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata

Preservation metadata standard with documentation and associated machine-readable representations.

Identity and normative owner

Record: premis; record authority: Modeling. Normative owner of subject: Library of Congress and the standard's maintenance activity. Resource reference: https://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/ Registration is for discovery, not adoption, endorsement, or transfer of normative ownership.

Editions

  • 3.0: named release; current status not reverified. Named edition for identification, not a claim that it is the newest edition.

Distributions and references

  • premis-documentation — documentation, text/html, en.
  • premis-schema-reference — schema, application/xml, en. Rights are assessed per distribution in the record. Unassessed rights do not imply permission to redistribute.

Verification scope

  • reference-not-verified (not observed): Reference retained from the architecture inventory; this intake has not independently verified its current source content.
  • metadata-observed (2026-09-17): Official ontology description metadata only. The main landing page and exact XSD bytes were not fetched in this intake.

Cautions

  • Documentation, XML Schema, and OWL ontology are not assumed to be lossless interchangeable serializations.
  • The version and governing party of a particular representation require their own evidence.