Feasibility Study of Preservation Metadata in Greenstone Digital Library Software

Abstract

This paper examine the comparative and analytical study of Greenstone open source software metadata sets with the PREMIS data dictionary 2.2 and try to find out the how many elements of the GSDL are compatible for the PREMIS data dictionary which is use as a standard for Preservation Metadata as well as analysis of the other types of Metadata Standard Like Administrative, Technical, Descriptive etc. Greenstone is not fully supported all the elements of PREMIS Data Dictionary so we can say that it is partially supported to the preservation metadata.