textMD is a XML Schema maintained by the Library of Congress that details technical metadata for text-based digital objects. It allows for detailing properties such as encoding information (quality, platform, software, agent), character information (character set and size, byte order and size, line terminators), languages, fonts, markup information, processing and textual notes, technical requirements for printing and viewing, and page ordering and sequencing.
This report contains the results of the PRESTA - PREMIS Requirements Statement project undertaken by the National Library of Australia from December 2005 to June 2006 for the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR).
This guide is a relatively brief overview of the PREMIS preservation metadata standard. It will not give you enough information to implement PREMIS, but it will give you some idea of what PREMIS is all about. For many readers, this will be enough. For those who do need to master the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, this guide may serve as a gentle introduction that makes the larger document feel more familiar.