METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

[Sebastien Derriere]

  Hi,

  Here is the reference page for METS

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

  As I briefly said in thursday's Registry 3 session,
METS seems to be a widely (in the world of librarians) 
used open XML standard for encapsulating pieces of 
metadata, mostly for describing structured electronic 
documents.
  It defines a set of containers whose contents are either
blocks of XML (could be VOResources!), or just pointers
to theses pieces of XML (with ivo:// ids?).
  This could help VO registries to give more structure
to the current flat-list of resources.

Sebastien.