METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

[Tony Linde]

Not sure if it is relevant, but UKOLN links to METS from a page that has
links to many other metadata resources:
  http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/

T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registry at eso.org [mailto:owner-registry at eso.org] 
> On Behalf Of Sebastien Derriere
> Sent: 19 May 2005 17:00
> To: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
> 
> 
>   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.
> 
>