As many of us may know, PREMIS stands for “PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies. In 2009 Priscilla Caplan authored the publication titled ‘Understanding PREMIS’, published by the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office. The publication serves as an overview of the PREMIS preservation metadata standard. As stated in the publication, “The PREMIS Data Dictionary defines preservation metadata as “the information a repository uses to support the digital preservation process.”
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/understanding-premis.pdf
