"The METS schema is a standard for encoding the descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata of digital objects, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Cornsortium. 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." http://dlib.nyu.edu/metstools/
From: Using metada standards in digital libraries
- METS is an application that records the structure of digital objects -- the names, locations of the files and the associated metadata
- It is a container for metadata and file pointers
- It could be a unit of storage or a transmission format
- It uses the XML schema facility for combining vocabularies from different Namespaces
- It is extensible using "wrappers" or "sockets" in such a way that other schemas can be plugged in
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Too synthetic maybe. METS is complex, but is understandable once you figure out that it basically is a holder for all this other lifecycle metadata standards (descriptive, rights, technical, etc.).
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