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METSMETADATAENCODINGANDTRANSMISSIONSTANDARD:PRIMERANDREFERENCEMANUALVersion1.6September2007©2007DigitalLibraryFederation:Chapter1:Introductionandbackground.....................................................................7WhatisMETS?WhatproblemisMETStryingtosolve?HowisMETSmaintained?WhatisMETSbuiltupon?WhoistheMETScommunity?Chapter2:AuthoringaMETSDocument.....................................................................9StructuralMapandFileSectionDescriptiveMetadataSectionAdministrativeMetadataSectionTechnicalMetadataConclusionChapter3:Fromtheschemaperspective....................................................................16metsTherootelementdmdSecDescriptivemetadataamdSecAdministrativemetadataCompleteadministrativemetadata--examplefileFilesectionstructMapStructuralmapsectionstructLinkStructurallinkSectionbehaviorSecBehaviorsectionMETSEditorialBoardMETS:PrimerandReferenceManual3Chapter4:Commonconstructsandstandards...................................................66XMLTechnologiesandSpecificationsusedthroughoutMETS......................................66UseofXMLID,IDREF,andIDREFSUseofID,IDREFandIDREFSattributesforcrossreferencinginMETSUseofIDvaluesforexternalreferencing.UseofBEGIN,END,andBETYPEtoreferenceIDsinstructuredtextcontentfiles.UseofIDvaluesinthemdRef“XPTR”attribute.ReferencingelementsfromothernamespacesinthexmlDataelementviaIDandIDREF/IDREFSattributes.ThexmlDataelements.METSxmlDataelements.ThebinDataelements.ElementsofanyType:streamandtransformFile.Chapter5:Profiles................................................................................................................80PurposeofMETSProfilesComponentsofaMETSProfileProfileDevelopmentProfileRegistrationChapter6:ExternalschemaandControlledVocabulary....................................82DescriptiveMetadataSchemesAdministrativeMetadataSchemesEndorsedExternalSchemataGlossary.....................................................................................................................................85Bibliography.............................................................................................................................87METSEditorialBoardMETS:PrimerandReferenceManual4AppendixB.............................................................................................................................140Tables........................................................................................................................................140Table1:Element,AttributeandComplexTypeTablesTable2:ElementsTable3:AttributesMETSEditorialBoardMETS:PrimerandReferenceManual5FOREWORDOneofthemostoftenexpressedrequestsreceivedbytheMETSEditorialBoardduringitsrelativelyshorthistoryhasbeenformoreextensivetechnicaldocumentationandbetterexamplesofMETSinstances.AsinstitutionswhichinitiallyimplementedMETShavegainedmoreexperiencewithit,thefeasibilityofcreatingusefuldocumentationhasbeengreatlyincreased.TargetedforprospectiveusersofMETS,butalsofordevelopers,metadataanalysts,andtechnicalmanagers,thisdocumentationhasbeenwrittenbyasmallsubgroupoftheMETSEditorialBoard.SpecialthanksgotoRickBeaubien,UniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeley;SusanDahl,UniversityofAlberta;NancyHoebelheinrich,StanfordUniversity;JeromeMcDonough,UniversityofIllinois,UrbanaChampaign;MerrileeProffitt,OCLCProgramsandResearch;TaylorSurface,OCLC;andoureditor,CeciliaPreston,PrestonandLynch.AspecialthankyoutoalltheDLFDirectorswithwhomwehaveworked:DanGreenstein,DavidSeamanandPeterBrantley.Andtoallofourreviewersfortheirtime,effortandvaluablecomments,especiallyJennRiley,UniversityofIndiana;NateTrail,LibraryofCongress;EricStedfeld,NYU;PhilipSchreur,JerryPersonsandRachelGollubatStanford;MichaelConkinandGuiliaHullatUCBerkeley;andArwenHutt,UCSantaBarbara.Atthistimethisdocumenthasbeenformattedforprintpublication.Therewillalsobeanonlineversiontoreferencewhichwillcontainupdatesovertime.QuestionsaboutthematerialcanbedirectedtotheMETSEditorialBoard.HOWTOUSETHISPUBLICATION:Awiderangeofreaderswereenvisionedasthisdocumentwasbeingplanned,writtenandedited.Assuch,eachchapteraspresentedcanoftenstandalone.Chapter1servesasitsIntroduction,providingsomegeneralanswerstothebackgroundanddevelopmentofMETS.Chapter2isdesignedasanoverviewandbasictutorialfortheuseofMETS.ItdescribeshowtocreateaMETSdocument.Chapter3providesmorespecificdocumentationaboutthevariouselementswithintheMETSschema.TheelementsareorganizedintheordertheyappearintheMETS.xsd.Chapter4istargetedtothedeveloperandXMLaficionadowhoneedstoknowhowXMLspecificmethodsareincorporatedanddesignedtobeusedwithintheXMLbindingoftheschema.Chapter5providesanoverviewoftheuseofexternalschemaswithMETSforthedifferentcategoriesofmetadatathatcanbepartitionedwithinitincludingdescriptiveandadminis