The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) was initially developed for the Digital Library Federation by Jerome McDonough. Complicated digital objects such as books require structural metadata in order to relate the pages and chapters to one another, as well as to the whole. Technical metadata is needed to inform scholars of how accurate a representation the digital object is, and also to enable the library to periodically refresh and migrate the data to ensure durability. In addition, a standardized schema that encompassed all the preservation and use needs of the digital object was desirable for share-ability, particularly within the proposed Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model.
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.
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.
a set of open-source tools developed to support the implementation of PREMIS in the METS container format. The tools were created by Florida Center for Library Automation for the Library of Congress in 2009.
The Library of Congress and the Florida Center for Library Automation developed the PREMIS in METS (PiM) Toolbox. The project provides PREMIS:METS conversion and validation tools that support the implementation of PREMIS in the METS container format.
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.
The New York Mets found a way to win last night, but the team may have had a significant loss along the way: Starting pitcher Jenrry Mejia(notes) was only making his third start in the majors, but it may be his last for the season, according to the New York Daily News.
We present a Java toolkit for the procedural construction, validation, and marshalling and unmarshalling for METS. METS, the Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard, is intended to provide a standardized XML encoding for transmission of complex digital library objects between systems. While it provides standard containers and encoding mechanisms for descriptive and administrative metadata, it does not define the content or format of that metadata. However, the content and format of structural metadata is explicitly mandated within the METS specification.
Digitalisiertes Archivgut in Online-Findbüchern / Digitized Archives in Online Finding Aids Ein Projekt des Bundesarchivs mit Unterstützung der Andrew W. Mellon-Foundation, New York
Das SBB Zeitungen METS-Profil - Exchange beschreibt das Datenformat für den Austausch von Metadaten für digitale Objekte digitalisierter Zeitungen zwischen der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin und Dritten, die als Auftragnehmer diese Daten erstellen.
ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) is a XML Schema that details technical metadata for describing the layout and content of physical text resources, such as pages of a book or a newspaper. It most commonly serves as an extension schema used within the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema (METS) administrative metadata section. However, ALTO instances can also exist as a standalone document used independently of METS.
textMD is a XML Schema maintained by the Library of Congress that details technical metadata for text-based digital objects. It allows for detailing properties such as encoding information (quality, platform, software, agent), character information (character set and size, byte order and size, line terminators), languages, fonts, markup information, processing and textual notes, technical requirements for printing and viewing, and page ordering and sequencing.
This site serves as a repository for the NYU Digital Library Team's METS implementation development projects. At present a modest handful of XSLT-based page-turner and search implementations are freely available for use on an "as is" basis. In the pipeline are a java-based SMIL viewer, a java-based application and a perl-based application to extract a METS file from a database using NYU's zeroDB schema.
The Archivists’ Toolkit™, or the AT, is the first open source archival data management system to provide broad, integrated support for the management of archives. It is intended for a wide range of archival repositories. The main goals of the AT are to support archival processing and production of access instruments, promote data standardization, promote efficiency, and lower training costs.
METS: An Overview & Tutorial: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Official Web Site. 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.
This viewer is an XSLT solution for the display of multimedia files and text transcriptions of a digital object serialized into an xml-encoded METS document. The viewer can be adapted to present audio and text with links to a "slide show" of image files as well. In this viewer, METS files are transformed to SMIL files for display, and TEI files of transcribed text are transformed to text files with embedded timecode.
In order to control the handling of the display across different browsers and platforms, the viewer utilizes QuickTime to display SMIL files. The accompanying transcriptions are formatted as text with QuickTime descriptors. Because one cannot point into a location within the QuickTime text file, the text file is launched at the beginning of the SMIL file, along with the media file to which it is synchronized. This combination of QuickTime, SMIL, media file and synchronized text file is sufficient to meet the needs of a large number of multimedia viewer applications.
The broad aim of the project is to kick-start a critical mass of METS-based projects within the UK so ensuring that UK institutions are fully standards-based in their digital object management.
Brown University Library's digital collections contain a mix of public domain, copyrighted (fair-use), and licensed materials. Materials that are under copyright or license agreement are available only to members of the Brown Community. Public domain materials are available to everybody.
METS Navigator is a METS-based system developed by the Indiana University Digital Library Program for displaying and navigating sets of page images or other multi-part digital objects. METS, the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard, is an XML standard, maintained by the Library of Congress, for managing and describing digital library objects. Using the information in the METS <structMap> elements, METS Navigator builds a hierarchical menu that allows users to navigate to specific sections of a document, such as title page, specific chapters, illustrations, etc. METS Navigator also allows simple navigation to the next, previous, first, and last page image or component part of a digital object.
The <div> TYPE attribute vocabulary is a list of terms that may be used to categorise the core structural elements of an object in a METS document conforming to the Australian METS Profile. Examples of how these values may be applied are given in the Appendix – Content Models. The content model in the current version of the document represent use cases that have been tested by the Maintenance Agency, and further content models and vocabulary terms will be added as they are developed.