Abstract:

Metadata preservation is an important way to ensure the viability, renderability, understandability,authenticity and identity of digital resources. To review the latest development of metadata preservation and provide reference for domestic agencies that are engaged in digital preservation, the authors analyse the
core standards, proceedings of important conference and outcomes of important projects. The important development in right metadata, significant properties, metadata preservation regarding special digital resources, semantic of metadata preservation and provenance metadata are also summarized in the end.

Key words: Metadata preservation, PREMIS, Right metadata, Significant properties, Provenance metadata