METS
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Date added 19 February 2007
Last edited 12 November 2009
Full Title
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
Description
The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is an XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) schema for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata needed to manage and exchange digital library objects. It is able to describe the complex links between objects and their metadata while associating behaviours or services to a digital object.
A METS document can be structured to be compliant with the Submission Information Package (SIP), Archival Information Package (AIP), or Dissemination Information Package (DIP) requirements of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model.
Standards Developing Organisations
- Network Development and MARC Standards Office
- Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress
- DLF
- Digital Library Federation
Rights
No information available.
Lifecycle Actions
- Access, Use and Reuse
- Create or Receive
- Curate and Preserve
- Ingest
- Store
Standard Frameworks
- Digital Archive Standards
- Digital Repository Standards
Standard Type
- Metadata Packaging Standards
Current Version
- April 2009 - METS, version 1.8 [external]
- Schema documentation for METS, version 1.8
Further Information
- METS Primer [external PDF]
- Wikipedia entry for METS [external]
Alternative Current Versions
None.
Previous Versions
- June 2001 - METS, version 1.1 [external]
- Superceded
- December 2002 - METS, version 1.2 [external]
- Superceded
- May 2003 - METS, version 1.3 [external]
- Superceded
- May 2004 - METS, version 1.4 [external]
- Superceded
- April 2005 - METS, version 1.5 [external]
- Superceded
- October 2006 - METS, version 1.6 [external]
- Superceded
- October 2007 - METS, version 1.7 [external]
Referenced Standards
- ANSI/NISO Z39.85, The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
- MARC 21
- MAchine-Readable Cataloguing
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- How-to Guides & Checklists
- Developing RDM Services
- Curation Lifecycle Model
- Curation Reference Manual
- Policy and legal
- Data Management Plans
- Tools
- Case studies
- Repository audit and assessment
- Standards
- Publications and presentations
- Roles
- Curation journals
- Informatics research
- External resources
- Online Store
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Research Data Registry & Discovery Service
The DCC is working on a pilot project to develop a UK-wide registry, or catalogue, of data held in UK HEIs and established subject-focused data centres alongside the UK Data Archive and a small group of universities with working data repositories.
