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Usage
METS, short for Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard, is a standard
for packaging descriptive, administrative and structural metadata. It
allows for metadata which adheres to existing standards (such as Dublin
Core and MARC) to be embedded in a METS record, or stored outside the
METS record and referenced. METS is therefore not a metadata standard
but rather a wrapper for associating existing metadata of various types
within a single object, document, or collection structure.
Creator
The METS standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards
office at the Library of Congress and developed under sponsorship of the
Digital Library Federation.
Revisions
METS Schema 1.0 (beta) was released on June 21, 2001. METS is based on
version two of the Making of America (MOA2) standard. MOA1 was developed
by the University of Michigan and Cornell University in 1995, MOA2 (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/)
was developed in 1998 by a group of universities, led by UC Berkeley,
working under the auspices of the Digital Library Federation.
Ease of Use
Not enough information.
Documentation
Since METS is in early beta, documentation is relatively sparse, but there
is a METS website hosted by the Library of Congress. <http://www.loc.gov/mets>
Thesauri
Does not apply.
Projects
See "Documentation" section above.
Granularity
A METS document contains a structure map which outlines the hierarchy
of the object or objects being described. There is no minimum or maximum
number of levels in a METS structure map.
Data for original and surrogate
Metadata types
Administrative, structural, and descriptive.
