SPEC Kit 325: Digital Preservation · 67
Those units/departments who have (will have) these responsibilities will include the Collection Development Council,
the Content Stewardship Council, and other digital library committees (Digital Collections Review Team, Digital
Operations Team).
Unknown at this point.
Local Digital Preservation Metadata
33. What level(s) of preservation metadata does your library (plan to) have and/or create for digital
content? Check all that apply. N=51
Item-level 48 94%
Collection-level 42 82%
Other level(s) 5 10%
Please specify the other level(s).
Archival series-level metadata for university archives &for special collections manuscript collections.
Granularity varies for research data projects, but could actually be at the sub-item level depending on how data sets are
defined.
Series level for archival items.
Series or folder level.
Some folder level.
34. What type(s) of preservation metadata does your library (plan to) have and/or create for digital
content? Check all that apply. N=51
Administrative metadata (e.g., access privileges, rights, ownership of material) 51 100%
Technical metadata (e.g., information describing the production process
or digital attributes of the work) 50 98%
Structural metadata (e.g., for purposes of linking different parts or units of data) 44 86%
Provenance metadata (e.g., chain of custody and related audit trails) 42 82%
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