METS


 * Meet the Mets, meet the Mets, step right up and greet the Mets.
 * --Baseball team jingle, 1962 (MP3)

METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard), in the context of archiving metadata, is not a baseball team, but a standard for representing the metadata in XML form. It is intended for the storage and transmission of information about digital objects being preserved in a repository. The Library of Congress maintains its official website.

Specs

 * METS Schema (always goes to latest version)
 * METS Schema 1.10
 * METS Schema 1.9.1
 * METS Schema 1.9
 * Schema documentation 1.9

Other documents

 * METS Primer and Reference Manual
 * METS Overview and Tutorial

Sample files

 * METS examples

Software

 * Tools and utilities

Links

 * Official website