This presentation was given by Kathryn Cassidy, Software Engineer at the Digital Repository of Ireland, at a Digital Preservation Coalition Briefing Day entitled 'Practical Preservation and People: a briefing about metadata'. The Briefing Day was held in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast on 3 December 2015. The presentation explores the metadata requirements for effective long-term digital preservation in the Digital Repository of Ireland.

1. Kathryn Cassidy
Software Engineer, Digital Repository of Ireland
Trinity College Dublin

5. http://www.dri.ie/publications

6. Supported Metadata Standards
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7. What metadata we require
• Title
• Description
• Rights
• Type
• A person
• A date

8. What we hope to get 
• Rich descriptive metadata
• Contextual information
• Rights and reuse metadata
• Rights statement
• Licence
• Orphan work registration file number
• Information about organisations involved (funders, etc.)
• Access control information
• Provenance information
• Linked Data

9. Encouraging quality metadata
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10. Metadata Guidelines Series
http://www.dri.ie/publications
• One per standard
• Developed with our
Designated Community
• Identify mandatory &
recommended elements
• Provide guidance on
controlled vocabularies
• Examples

13. DRI Presents: Introduction to Metadata
DRI Presents
Introduction to Metadata

14. MOAB
PREMIS
Preservation Metadata

15. Gaps remaining
1. Capturing Existing Preservation Metadata
2. Collection-level Metadata
3. Integration with additional Linked Data sources

16. Results

17. But…
1. So far we have worked with large organisations
• Cultural institutes like archives and libraries
• Cataloguing experience
• Existing collections with metadata
2. We have in-house cataloguers who have helped
3. Now getting queries from more smaller organisations
To Be
Continued…