Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 3.1
Examples of PDI
Content
information
type
Reference
Provenance
Context
Fixity
Access rights
Space science
data
•
Object
identifier
•
Instrument description
•
Calibration history
•
CRC
•
Identification of the properly
authorized Designated community
(access control)
•
Principal investigator
•
Related data sets
•
Checksum
•
Journal
reference
•
Processing history
•
Mission
•
Reed-Solomon
coding
•
Storage and handling history
•
Funding history
•
Permission grants for preservation and
for distribution
•
Mission,
instrument,
title, attribute
set
•
Sensor description
•
Instrument
•
Pointers to fixity and provenance
information (e.g., digital signatures,
and rights holders)
•
Instrument mode
•
Decommutation map
•
Software interface
specification
•
Information property
description
Digital library
collections
•
Bibliographic
description
•
Persistent
identifier
•
For scanned collections:
•
“metadata” about the
digitization process
•
pointer to master version
•
Pointers to related
documents in
original
environment at
thetimeof
publication
•
Digital signature
•
Checksum
•
Authenticity
indicator
•
Legal framework(s)
•
Licensing offers
•
Specifications for rights enforcement
measures applied at dissemination time
•
•
Permission grants for preservation and
for distribution
For born-digital publications:
•
pointer to the digital original
•
“Metadata” about the
preservation process:
•
•
Information about watermarking
applied at submission and
preservation time
pointers to earlier versions
of the collection item
•
Pointers to fixity and provenance
information (e.g., digital signatures,
and rights holders)
•
change history
•
Information property
description