The document discusses the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), which is an XML schema for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library. It describes the characteristics and sections of a METS file, including the header, descriptive and administrative metadata, file and structural map sections. Current users of METS are also listed, such as libraries and universities. The purpose of METS is to provide a flexible structure for linking metadata and content about digital objects.

1. Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
Sandip Das
MS-LIS 2013-2015
Documentation Research And Training Centre (DRTC)
Indian Statistical Institute
Bangalore Centre

2. Overview
Introduction
Characteristics of METS
Sections of a METS
Current Users
Conclusion
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3. Introduction
Characteristics of METS
Sections of a METS
Current Users
Conclusion
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4. Metadata ?
 Data about data
 Metadata is structured information
 Metadata can be used to find, gather, and maintain resources
over long periods of time.
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5. METS ?
 Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
 A metadata standard for encoding descriptive, administrative,
and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital
library, expressed using the XML language of the World Wide
Web Consortium.
 Produced by LC and DLF
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6. XML?
 An ISO standard
 Interchangeable with other
applications
 Easy to integrate
cataloguing
information with text
transcription, images etc.
 Handles structural metadata
easily
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7. Why We Use ?
 All metadata format (like DC, EAD, VRA) utilize for bibliographic
description.
 METS act as a container object for the many piece of metadata
needed to describe a single digital object.
 A number of pieces of metadata are attached to each digital
object.
 METS provides a method for building the object (i.e. metadata,
attached items etc.) together so they can be transferred.
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8. Introduction
Characteristics of METS
Sections of a METS
Current Users
Conclusion
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9. Characteristics
 Generally one METS file corresponds to one digital object (which may
incorporate many files)
 All metadata encoded in single document
 Each type is held in a separate section, linked by identifiers
 All metadata and external data (eg. images, text, video) is either
referenced from METS file or can be held internally
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10. Introduction
Characteristics of METS
Sections of a METS
Current Users
Conclusion
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11. HOW TO BUILD A METS DOCUMENT
METS
Header
Struct. Map
Admin MD
File Sec.
Struct. Link
Descrip. MD
Behaviors
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12. METS Header
The METS Header contains metadata describing the METS
document itself, including such information as creator,
editor, etc.
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13. METS Header(Contd.)
<metsHdr CREATEDATE="2003-07-04T15:00:00" RECORDSTATUS="Complete">
<agent ROLE="CREATOR" TYPE="INDIVIDUAL"> <name>Jerome
McDonough</name> </agent> <agent ROLE="ARCHIVIST" TYPE="INDIVIDUAL">
<name>Ann Butler</name> </agent> </metsHdr>
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14. Descriptive Metadata
Can record all of the units of descriptive metadata pertaining to the digital
entity represented by METS document
– Descriptive Metadata may be
– External to the METS document
– Internal to the METS document
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15. External Descriptive Metadata (Contd.)
External Descriptive metadata element in a METS document
may simply identify the type of descriptive metadata it
represents (MARC, EAD, etc), and point to this metadata in
its external location via a URI Descriptive Metadata
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16. External Descriptive Metadata (Contd...)
<dmdSec ID="dmd001"> <mdRef LOCTYPE="URN"
MIMETYPE="application/xml" MDTYPE="EAD" LABEL="Berol Collection
Finding Aid">urn:x-nyu:fales1735</mdRef> </dmdSec>
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17. Internal Descriptive Metadata
 Internal descriptive metadata may be recorded internally in a METS
document in one of two ways
– As XML data using vocabulary and syntax specified in external XML
standard. For example, Dublin Core, MARC, MODS.
– As binary data. For example, a standard MARC record could simply be
incorporated as binary data into METS document.
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18. Internal Descriptive Metadata (Contd…)
<dmdSec ID="dmd002"> <mdWrap MIMETYPE="text/xml" MDTYPE="DC" LABEL="Dublin Core
Metadata">
<xmlData> <dc:title>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</dc:title> <dc:creator>Lewis Carroll</dc:creator>
<dc:date>between 1872 and 1890</dc:date> <dc:publisher>McCloughlin Brothers</dc:publisher>
<dc:type>text</dc:type> </xmlData> </mdWrap> </dmdSec> <dmdSec ID="dmd003"> <mdWrap
MIMETYPE="application/marc" MDTYPE="MARC" LABEL="OPAC Record">
<binData>MDI0ODdjam0gIDIyMDA1ODkgYSA0NU0wMDAxMDA...(etc.) </binData> </mdWrap>
</dmdSec>
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19. Administrative metadata
This elements contain the administrative metadata pertaining to the files comprising a
digital library object, as well as that pertaining to the original source material used to
create the object. There are four main forms of administrative metadata provided for
in a METS document:
1. Technical Metadata (information regarding files' creation, format, and use
characteristics),
2. IPR Metadata (copyright and license information)
3. Source Metadata (descriptive and administrative metadata regarding the analog
source from which a digital library object derives)
4. Digital Provenance Metadata (information regarding source/destination
relationships between files)
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20. File Section
The file section lists all files containing content which comprise the electronic
versions of the digital object.
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21. File Section(contd…)
File groups
Files are organized into File Groups
based on the grouping you would
like to do. One way is to group by
format (tiff, hi-res jpeg, med-res
jpeg, gif, etc)
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22. File Section(contd…)
File
<file ID="FILE003" MIMETYPE="image/jpeg">
<Flocat LOCTYPE="URL">
http://dlib.nyu.edu/tamwag/beame.jpg
</FLocat>
</file>
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23. Structural Map Section
The structural map is the heart of a METS document. It outlines a hierarchical
structure for the digital library object, and links the elements of that structure to
content files and metadata that pertain to each element.
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24. Structural Map Section(Contd…)
<structMap TYPE="PHYSICAL">
<div ID="title1.div.1" LABEL="Chapter 1“
<div ID="title.1.div.1.1" LABEL="Section 1">
<fptr FILEID="title1.image.1"/>
<fptr FILEID="title1.image.2"/>
</div>
<div ID="title.1.div.1.2" LABEL="Section 2">
<fptr FILEID="title1.image.3"/>
</div>
</div>
<div ID="title1.div.2" LABEL="Chapter 2">
</div>
</structMap>
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25. Structural Link Section
The Structural Links section of METS allows METS creators to record
the existence of hyperlinks between nodes in the hierarchy
outlined in the Structural Map. This is of particular value in using
METS to archive Websites.
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26. Structural Link Section
<div ID="P1" TYPE="page" LABEL="Page 1">
<fptr FILEID="HTMLF1"/>
<div ID="IMG1" TYPE="image" LABEL="Image Hyperlink to Page 2">
<fptr FILEID="JPGF1"/>
</div>
<div ID="P2" TYPE="page" LABEL="Page 2">
<fptr FILEID="HTMLF2"/> </div>
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27. Behavior Section
A late addition to the METS standard, the behavior section allows
information to be recorded on how components of the digital
object should be rendered for the user, this may include
information on specific software packages to be used, or on
particular parameters to be used when rendering a file.
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28.  Introduction
 Characteristics of METS
 Sections of a METS
 Current Users
 Conclusion
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29. Current users
– UC Berkeley (archival collections)
– Harvard (scanned print publications, e-journals)
– Library of Congress (audio/visual collections)
– EU Meta E project (historic newspapers)
– Michigan State (oral history collections)
– Univ. of Virginia (FEDORA digital objects)
– MIT (DSpace)
– RLG (RLG Cultural Materials)
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32. Introduction
Characteristics of METS
Sections of a METS
Current Users
Conclusion
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33. Conclusion
• METS provides varied and flexible mechanisms for
– expressing structure or structures of a digital entity
– linking structure with simple and complex content
– linking structure with descriptive metadata
– linking structure and content files with administrative metadata
– linking behaviors with structure and content
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34. Reference
 METS official site:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets
 Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METS
 UC Berkeley Library
http://ucblibrary4.berkeley.edu:8088/xdlib//calcultures/uci/mets
/cui_1_6_00004505.xml
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35. Image Source : www.cornwall.gov.uk
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