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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Winter 2-26-2014 Metadata for a Web Archive: PREMIS and XMP as Tools for the Task Laurentia Romaniuk laurentia.romaniuk@ Follow this and additional works at : /libphilprac Part of the Archival Science Commons Romaniuk, Laurentia, Metadata for a Web Archive: PREMIS and MP as Tools for the Task (2014). Library Ph ilosop hy a nd Practice (e-journal). Paper 1098. /libphilprac/1098 Running Head: METADATA FOR A WEB ARCHIVE Metadata for a Web Archive: PREMIS and XMP as Tools for the Task Laurentia M. Romaniuk San Jose State University Metadata for a Web Archive 1 Abstract In a time where websites are ever changing, what metadata standards and tools are best for ensuring that web archive objects (such as snapshots of websites) are readable for users of the future? Can the evolution of web interfaces be documented? Initiatives that explore these questions already exist such as the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine (which stores source code from websites along with images); however, other archive building solutions are also available but have yet to be explored. The field of digital asset management (DAM), for example, has long examined how assets (digital files) are stored, organized, retrieved, and preserved. Best practices related to the use of metadata standards and tools found in digital asset management are useful and relevant to web archive building. In order to better understand the practicality of implementing DAM best practices in building a web archive, a small project was performed which involved cross-walking two metadata standards,