User:Kleinfercher/eSciDoc METS Profile

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mets
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard.

dmdSec
This section records all of the descriptive metadata for all items in the METS object. Multiple dmdSec elements are allowed so that descriptive metadata can be recorded for each separate item within the METS object.

amdSec
This section records all of the administrative metadata for all items in the METS object (including structural map divs, data files, descriptive metadata sections and adminstrative metadata sections themselves).

fileSec
The content file section records information regarding all of the data files which comprise the digital library object.

fileGrp
This element allows for the grouping of content files into sets (all of the master images for a work, all of the images for a particular page, etc.).

structMap
The structural map is the heart of a METS document, defining the hierarchical arrangement of a primary source document which has been digitized. This hierarchy is encoded as a tree of 'div' elements. Any given 'div' can point to another METS document via the 'mptr' element, or to a single file, to a group of files, or to segments of individual files or groups of files through the 'fptr' and subsidiary elements.

structLink
The Structural Map Linking section allows for the specification of hyperlinks between different components of a METS structure delineated in a structural map.

techMD
The techMD element provides a wrapper around a generic metadata section, which should contain technical metadata regarding a file or files.

rightsMD
The rightsMD element provides a wrapper around a generic metadata section, which should contain IP rights metadata.

sourceMD
The sourceMD element provides a wrapper around a generic metadata section which should contain descriptive or administrative metadata regarding the original source materials used to create the METS object.

digiprovMD
digiprovMD should be used to record information to allow both archival/library staff and scholars to understand what modifications have been performed to a digital object during its life cycle in order to judge how those processes might have altered or corrupted the object's ability to accurately represent the original item.

file
The referenced file object

div
The METS standard represents a document structurally as a series of nested div elements, that is, as a hierarchy (e.g., a book, which is composed of chapters, which are composed of subchapters, which are composed of text).

mdWrap
The mdWrap element is a generic element used throughout the METS schema to allow the encoder to place arbitrary metadata conforming to other standards/schema within a METS document.

MDTYPE attribute can contain the following values:

MARC | MODS | EAD | DC | NISOIMG | LC-AV | VRA | TEIHDR | DDI | FGDC | LOM | PREMIS | PREMIS:OBJECT | PREMIS:AGENT | PREMIS:RIGHTS | PREMIS:EVENT | OTHER