Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
"The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation."[1]
The METS structure[edit]
<METS:metsHdr ID="H1" CREATEDATE="2002-05-20T06:32:00" LASTMODDATE="2002-05-22T06:32:00" RECORDSTATUS="A"> <METS:agent/> </METS:metsHdr>
Notes:
- The METS header includes some meta-information about the digital object, this may be...
- METS agent container specifies role as well as type ("individual", "organization", "other")
An example METS xml is available from the Fedora homepage.[2]
eBind <-> METS[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets - the official METS homepage
- ↑ http://www.fedora.info/documents/obj-image-userinput-archdraw.xml - METS example