METS: An Overview & Tutorial
METS,
Aug 15, 2003
This is a very interesting specification. The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is intended to describe the structural properties of digital resources. Why is this necessary? "While a library may record descriptive metadata regarding a book in its collection, the book will not dissolve into a series of unconnected pages if the library fails to record structural metadata regarding the book's organization, nor will scholars be unable to evaluate the book's worth if the library fails to note that the book was produced using a Ryobi offset press. The same cannot be said for a digital version of the same book." The initiative has evolved into a wider set of standards, and the body just recently announced a streamlined digital rights metadata specification. According to the METS News "The METS Editorial Board sees the need for a simple Rights schema that theCRLFMETS community could use while the more comprehensive Rights Expression Language (REL) schemas such as XrML, ODRL, the IEEE LTSC-DRELWorking Group, and others are being developed, and debated." The schema has been published but I don't see any documentation yet, though there are some sample instances available.
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