We present a Java toolkit for the procedural construction, validation, and marshalling and unmarshalling for METS. METS, the Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard, is intended to provide a standardized XML encoding for transmission of complex digital library objects between systems. While it provides standard containers and encoding mechanisms for descriptive and administrative metadata, it does not define the content or format of that metadata. However, the content and format of structural metadata is explicitly mandated within the METS specification.
Digitalisiertes Archivgut in Online-Findbüchern / Digitized Archives in Online Finding Aids Ein Projekt des Bundesarchivs mit Unterstützung der Andrew W. Mellon-Foundation, New York
Das SBB Zeitungen METS-Profil - Exchange beschreibt das Datenformat für den Austausch von Metadaten für digitale Objekte digitalisierter Zeitungen zwischen der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin und Dritten, die als Auftragnehmer diese Daten erstellen.
ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) is a XML Schema that details technical metadata for describing the layout and content of physical text resources, such as pages of a book or a newspaper. It most commonly serves as an extension schema used within the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema (METS) administrative metadata section. However, ALTO instances can also exist as a standalone document used independently of METS.
textMD is a XML Schema maintained by the Library of Congress that details technical metadata for text-based digital objects. It allows for detailing properties such as encoding information (quality, platform, software, agent), character information (character set and size, byte order and size, line terminators), languages, fonts, markup information, processing and textual notes, technical requirements for printing and viewing, and page ordering and sequencing.
This site serves as a repository for the NYU Digital Library Team's METS implementation development projects. At present a modest handful of XSLT-based page-turner and search implementations are freely available for use on an "as is" basis. In the pipeline are a java-based SMIL viewer, a java-based application and a perl-based application to extract a METS file from a database using NYU's zeroDB schema.
The Archivists’ Toolkit™, or the AT, is the first open source archival data management system to provide broad, integrated support for the management of archives. It is intended for a wide range of archival repositories. The main goals of the AT are to support archival processing and production of access instruments, promote data standardization, promote efficiency, and lower training costs.
METS: An Overview & Tutorial: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Official Web Site. The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation.
This viewer is an XSLT solution for the display of multimedia files and text transcriptions of a digital object serialized into an xml-encoded METS document. The viewer can be adapted to present audio and text with links to a "slide show" of image files as well. In this viewer, METS files are transformed to SMIL files for display, and TEI files of transcribed text are transformed to text files with embedded timecode.
In order to control the handling of the display across different browsers and platforms, the viewer utilizes QuickTime to display SMIL files. The accompanying transcriptions are formatted as text with QuickTime descriptors. Because one cannot point into a location within the QuickTime text file, the text file is launched at the beginning of the SMIL file, along with the media file to which it is synchronized. This combination of QuickTime, SMIL, media file and synchronized text file is sufficient to meet the needs of a large number of multimedia viewer applications.