METS Dr. Heike Neuroth EMANI – Project Meeting February 14 th - 16 th, 2002 Springer-Verlag Heidelberg Göttingen State and University Library (SUB)

February 14 th - 16 th, 2002 EMANI Project Meeting SUB Göttingen General  Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard  is intended to provide a standardized XML format for transmission of complex digital library objects between systems  standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language  is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress

February 14 th - 16 th, 2002 EMANI Project Meeting SUB Göttingen Why METS  provides a flexible mechanism  for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for a digital library object, and  for expressing the complex links between these various forms of metadata  XML document format for encoding metadata necessary for both management of digital library objects within a repository and exchange of such objects between repositories  useful standard for the exchange of digital library objects between repositories

February 14 th - 16 th, 2002 EMANI Project Meeting SUB Göttingen Four Major Sections  Descriptive Metadata  Administrative Metadata  File Groups  Structural Map

February 14 th - 16 th, 2002 EMANI Project Meeting SUB Göttingen Descriptive Metadata  may point to descriptive metadata external and/or internal (embedded) to the METS document  multiple instances of both external and internal descriptive metadata may be included in the descriptive metadata section  descriptive metadata section  pointer to external metadata  internally embedded metadata

February 14 th - 16 th, 2002 EMANI Project Meeting SUB Göttingen Administrative Metadata  provides information about  Technical Metadata (information regarding files' creation, format, and use characteristics)  IPR Metadata (copyright and license information)  Source Metadata (descriptive and administrative metadata regarding the analog source from which a digital library object derives)  Digital Provenance Metadata (information regarding source/ destination relationships between files, e.g. master/derivative RS between files, information regarding migrations/transformations) 

February 14 th - 16 th, 2002 EMANI Project Meeting SUB Göttingen File Group  file group section consists of one or more elements  used to group together related files  lists all of the files which comprise a single electronic version of the digital library object

February 14 th - 16 th, 2002 EMANI Project Meeting SUB Göttingen Structural Map  is the heart of a METS document  outlines a hierarchical structure for the digital library object  links the elements of that structure to content files and metadata that pertain to each element  element encodes this hierarchy as a nested series of elements

February 14 th - 16 th, 2002 EMANI Project Meeting SUB Göttingen Conclusion  METS document consists of five possible subsidiary sections:  metsHdr (METS document header),  dmdSec (descriptive metadata section),  amdSec (administrative metadata section),  fileGrp (file inventory group), and  structMap (structural map)  with five possible attributes (ID, OBJID, LABEL, TYPE, PROFILE )