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The METS implementation registry contains descriptions of METS projects planned, in progress, and fully implemented. To have your projects added to the list, please submit the requisite information directly to the METS list (METS@loc.gov) or to Rick Beaubien (rbeaubie@library.berkeley.edu).

Registry Table of Contents (linked, by institution and project):
Institution/Project
Project Details

The Bancroft Library Mark Twain Papers,University of California Press,California Digital Library Publishing Group

Mark Twain Papers Online

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Description:
Mark Twain Project Online applies innovative technology to more than four decades worth of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project. It offers unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents. Its ultimate purpose is to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote. MTPO is a collaboration between the Mark Twain Papers and Project of The Bancroft Library, the California Digital Library, and University of California Press.
Dates:
October 26, 2007
Sites:

http://www.marktwainproject.org/
Docs:
None available
Tools:
XTF
Contacts

Leslie Myrick (lmyrick@library.berkeley.edu
 
last updated: 2007-11-14
last verified: 2007-11-14

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Digital Asset Management Database

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Description:
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive has developed a software tool called the Digital Asset Management Database (DAMD) that has as one of it's primary functions, the ability to export EAD and METS XML documents that include metadata about museum collections. The resulting METS documents will be shared with content portals such as OAC and RLG (previously, we have shared EAD and MOA2 with them).
Dates:
In production
Sites:
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac
Data that is exported from DAMD and shared with OAC is available on the general OAC website (see OAC), and is also available from the MOAC project website through a portal that sends queries from the MOAC web site to the OAC content management system where data is returned and processed through MOAC XSLT for display on the MOAC search portal indicated above.
Profiles:
 None
External schema:
dmdSec: EAD  
techMD:

none

  
sourceMD: none  
rightsMD: none  
digiprovMD: none  
Docs:
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/damd/
DAMD_manual.pdf [PDF - requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view; 3.8MB]
Tools:
DAMD was developed by BAM/PFA in the context of the MOAC project (see http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac) and is currently being shared with other MOAC partners with plans to share the tool more broadly in the future.
Contacts
 Richard Rinehart, rinehart@berkeley.edu
 
last updated: 2004-07-22

Biblioteca Digitale Provinciale P. Albino (Campobasso - Italy)

Progetto del Sistema Informativo di Metadati Bibliografici ad Architettura Digitale (S.I.M.B.A.D.) --Bibliographic Metadata Information System on Digital Architecture

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Description:
The project for a Bibliographic Metadata Information System on Digital Architecture (S.I.M.B.A.D.) was born with the intention to build basic components for a digital library realization, that is inserted in the context of BPA "Biblioteca Provinciale P. Albino". The sensible management politics to the preservation and to the access of the digital objects, the computing grade started by several years and the community technical ability (management responsibility mentioned in the Research Library Group report "Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities"), made BPA, the ideal environment for a digital library realization. The ideal objective is realizing a digital information infrastructure that supports the human conceptual work and points to the information quality, which is connoted by the maximum technological independence and supports the data interoperability for the exchange and the circulation of the digital information objects. The Digital BPA (BDPA) basic architecture is composed by structural elements built on an object model, which implements metadata structures based on METS schema and the BDPA XML "skeleton" has mostly a METS sections compliance. Owing to evaluation, the METS schema seemed not only complete, but also very flexible and suitable to the variety of digital objects, as a consequence, it was integrated by other standards, both international (DC, METS, MIX) and national (MAG), tailoring the adequate arrangements to meet the BPA holdings requirements.
Dates:
Basic prototype April 2004
Sites:
http://www.provincia.campobasso.it/biblioteca/digitale/
Profiles:
 none

External schema:
dmdSec: dc http://uk.dublincore.org/
schemas/xmls/
simpledc20021212.xsd
techMD:

mix

 http://www.loc.gov/mix
sourceMD: mag http://www.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/progetti/mag
rightsMD: none  
digiprovMD: none  
Docs:
Documentation available through the project home page: http://web-serv.provincia.campobasso.it/biblioteca/digitale/. Additional documentation in progress.
Tools:
The S.I.M.B.A.D. navigation tool is an application solution for: displaying the images file and the descriptive administrative and structural metadata content, exploring the available BDPA resources. The application was developed in XSLT, coherently to the technological independence. The XSLT solution type is the simplest and the less invasive in the metadata system. It doesn't have the advantages of the other application tools for the information retrieval but it is just for visualizing the resources, and was inspired by the NY digital library tool, even though we use just a client-side XSLT application.
Contacts

Angela di Iorio: angela.diiorio@uniroma1.it, creativ.ita@katamail.com
BDPA: bibliotecadigitale@provincia.campobasso.it

 
last updated: 2005-05-11

Biblioteca Nacional -- National Library of Portugal

Biblioteca Nacional Digital -- National Digital Library

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Description:
The BND - "Biblioteca Nacional Digital" (National Digital Library) is an initiative of the BN - National Library of Portugal. The main purposes of the BND are the development of services for the preservation, registration, discovery and access to digital resources. Those resources comprise digitized and digital born cultural and scientific documental resources.
The infrastructure for the BND has been under development using METS as the structural metadata. A notable part of this infrastructure and related tools has been ContentE, a solution to create METS.
BN has been assisted by INESC-ID in the development of this infrastructure
Dates:
- End 2005: Fully functional infrastructure, but requiring re-engineering of some services and the development of a common "Enterprise Bus".
- End 2006: Design of a SOA - Service Oriented Architecture.
- Middle 2007: Deployment of a SOA environment, integrating all the services.
Sites:
(mainly in Portuguese)
Access to the BND: http://bnd.bn.pt/ - http://purl.pt/
Description of the technology: http://bnd.bn.pt/tec/
Docs:
Most of the documents are in Portuguese Language. Dissemination papers and more detailed information can be provided by request
Tools:
ContentE is a tool to create METS files. It is intended mainly for digitized works, even if it can be used for general purpose. ContentE is composed of two components: a library, to be used by other systems, and a local application that uses the library and provides a powerful user interface for advanced usage.
ContentE Library: The ContentE library can be used by other applications to structure, for example, the master copies of the digitized works, for preservation, as also to create the access copies. A master copy is a folder with a set of other folders, one for each MIME type existing in the object. One typical MIME type that is always present is TIFF. Other types are usually JPEG, PNG, GIF, PDF and TXT. For all of this, ContentE creates structural descriptions in METS. It is possible to register I the master objects also indexes (chapters, parts, volumes, etc.). Those indexes can be used to create access copies, by just applying XSLT transformations to the master, resulting in XHTML objects.
ContentE Local Application: This tool uses the Content Library. It provides powerful user interface for the editing of complex indexes, as also for the creating of detailed access copies.
Contacts
 José Borbinha: jlb@ist.utl.pt
Gilberto Pedrosa: gpedrosa@ext.bn.pt
 
last updated: 2006-08-07

Brown University Library

Center for Digital Initiatives

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Description:

The Center for Digital Initiatives (CDI) focuses its efforts in three areas:

  1. Production of digital materials for use in scholarship and teaching at Brown.
  2. Digitization of "signature collections" from Brown's world renowned Special Collections.
  3. Consultative services for Library and academic units undertaking digital projects.
Dates:
In production since 2003
Sites:
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/
The CDI has developed a METS based digital library catalog (repoman) that uses METS records as part of a submission package. Descriptive elements are shredded and sent to an MySQL database for indexing, and the source METS records are stored in the filesystem. Retrieval of any object from the database is achieved by applying a format specific (text, image, audio) stylesheet to a METS record and determining any appropriate disseminations by evaluating the FileSec and StructMap nodes.
Profiles:
 Forthcoming, 2007

External schema:
dmdSec:

MODS
VRA

 http://www.loc.gov/mods
http://gort.ucsd.edu/escowles/vracore4/
techMD:

MIX

 http://www.loc.gov/mix
sourceMD: none  
rightsMD: metsrights http://cosimo.stanford.edu/sdr/metsrights.xsd
digiprovMD: none  
Docs:
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/documentation/
Tools:
Forthcoming, 2007:
  • Page turning Java servlet
  • Perl Scripts to generate METS records
  • XSLT stylesheets to render METS records
    		•
    Contacts

    Patrick Yott (patrick_yott@brown.edu)
    Ann Caldwell (e_caldwell@brown.edu)

     
    last updated: 2007-02-28
    last verified: 2007-02-28

    California Digital Library
    Digital Preservation Group

    UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository

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    Description:
    		The foundation of the University of California libraries digital preservation program, the Digital Preservation Repository (DPR) serves the stewardship mission of the UC libraries by providing a single shared solution for the preservation, management, and controlled dissemination of digital collections that support research, teaching, and learning. The repository provides a set of self-service interfaces that the libraries use to deposit and manage digital objects wrapped in METS documents.
    Dates:
    		In production
    Sites:

    Not applicable
    Docs:
    		http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/preservation/dpr/
    Tools:
    		 
    Contacts

    Kirsten Neilsen (Kirsten.Neilsen@ucop.edu)
     
    last updated: 2007-11-14
    last verified: 2007-11-14

    California Digital Library
    Publishing Group

    eScholarship Editions

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    Description:
    		The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the electronic books is open to all University of California faculty, staff, and students, while select books are available to the public. Print versions of many of the electronic books can be purchased directly from the publishers.
    Dates:
    		In production using METS in 2002
    Sites:

    http://www.escholarship.org/editions/

    Docs:
    		No documentation is available at this time.
    Tools:
    		XTF
    Contacts

    Kirk Hastings (Kirk.Hastings@ucop.edu)
     
    last updated: 2007-11-14
    last verified: 2007-11-14

    California Digital Library
    Digital Special Collections

    Online Archive of California
    Calisphere

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    Description:
    		Digital content and encoded archival description contributed by over 100 cultural heritage institutions in California is aggregated into a METS based repository. XTF is used to index and display XML documents and metadata. Contents include simple image object, multi-image "page turn" objects, and XML encoded documents. In 2008 support for PDF will be added and OAI will have production support.
    Dates:
    		OAC has used METS in production since 2003 and the Calisphere web site launched in the Summer of 2006
    Sites:

    http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
    http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

    Docs:
    		No documentation is available at this time.
    Tools:
    		XTF; 7Train Profile Driver
    Contacts

    Brian Tingle (Brian.Tingle@ucop.edu)
     
    last updated: 2007-11-14
    last verified: 2007-11-14

    Chinese Ministry of Education

    Chinese Digital Museum Project

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    Description:

    The Chinese Digital Museum Project is a collaborative project between the Chinese Ministry of Education, Hewlett-Packard Company and several Chinese universities, including Beijing Normal University and Beihang University.

    Many universities in China have one or more museums. In order to improve access of research communities, students/teachers and the general public to the artefacts in these museums, these universities are undertaking the digitisation of those artefacts. The principal aim of the project is to enable these universities to provide infrastructure based on DSpace to store, manage, preserve and disseminate the digitised versions of the artefacts. In the final phase of the project, there will be around 100 university museums with digital artefacts stored in federated DSpace installations.

    The basis of the replication aspect of this infrastructure is harvesting METS documents over OAI-PMH, which include references to content files. Those files can then be replicated via network or storage Grid.
    Dates:
    		Currently in prototype; first deployments later in 2005
    Sites:
    		none yet
    Profiles:
    		 Will be based on "standard" DSpace METS profile (in progress).

    External schema:
    dmdSec:

    qualified DC; miscellaneous museum-oriented schema

    		 
    techMD:

    DSpace technical md schema (in progress)

    		  
    sourceMD: none  
    rightsMD: none  
    digiprovMD: none  
    Docs:
    		Currently, the best place to check for information is http://wiki.dspace.org/ChinaDigitalMuseumProject -- will be updated regularly
    Tools:
    		All extensions to DSpace will be folded back into main DSpace code base, thus available as BSD-license open source. Extensions to allow METS to be harvested over OAI-PMH already available.
    Contacts

    James Rutherford, Research Engineer, HP Labs, Bristol, UK
    james.rutherford@hp.com
     
    last updated: 2005-08-16
    last verified: 2007-02-02

    Culturnet Cymru

    Books From the Past

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    Description:
    		Books from the Past is an on-line collection of books from Wales, of national cultural interest which have long been out of print, and are unlikely to be reprinted by traditional means. The website is in Welsh and English and uses METS for structural metadata and for linking image files to page divisions within the texts. It also uses TEI for the full text content of the books. The software is based on Greenstone Digital Library Software, but with some customisation and additions, including a METS/TEI to GAF converter. The texts are available in two forms - images of the original book pages, together with a fully searchable electronic text which is also suitable for printing. The website will be developed and expanded over the coming years to include many more texts in both languages. This resource, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government, is freely available to all.
    Dates:
    		Website launch: 17th May 2004
    Sites:

    http://www.booksfromthepast.org/
    http://www.llyfrau.org/
    Docs:
    		30 page document about the project available at http://www.booksfromthepast.org/Aboutus.asp?l=en
    Tools:
    		Culturenet digital library add-ons to Greenstone, including METS/TEI to Greenstone Archive Format converter and Welsh/English functionality. We intend to release all the software to be developed by ourselves as open source.
    Contacts

    Leith Haarhoff, Digitisation Manager: leith@culturenetcymru.com
     
    last updated: 2004-05-10

    Deutsche Nationalbibliothek -- German National Library

    kopal - Co-operative Development of a Long-Term Digital Information Archive

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    Description:
    		kopal is a co-operative German project by the German National Library, the State and University Library Göttingen, IBM Germany and the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen to build up a long-term digital information archive. The OAIS-compliant archival system in kopal consists of the commercial system DIAS by IBM and the open source software koLibRI (kopal Library for Retrieval and Ingest). The specifications of the structure of a SIP and a DIP in kopal are called Universal Object Format (UOF). Part of the UOF is a METS file with mandatory Long-term preservation Metadata for Electronic Resources (LMER) and optional Dublin Core.

    Dates:
    		The project kopal started in 2004 and will end in 2007. The archival system will be used by the German National Library and the State and University Library Göttingen. Other institutions will follow in the next years.
    Sites:
    		There is the project homepage, where you can find an interactive presentation (kopal demonstrator):
    http://kopal.langzeitarchivierung.de/index.php.en
    Profiles:
    Status:

    Completed and registered.

     
    Registered URI(s):

    http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/profiles/00000011.xml
    Docs:

     
    External schema:
    dmdSec: DC (optional)  
    techMD:

    LMER-Object
    LMER-File

    		 http://nbn-resolving.de/?urn=urn:nbn:de:1111-2005041208
    http://nbn-resolving.de/?urn=urn:nbn:de:1111-2005041220
    sourceMD: none  
    rightsMD: none  
    digiprovMD: LMER-Process http://nbn-resolving.de/?urn=urn:nbn:de:1111-2005041212
    Docs:
    		http://kopal.langzeitarchivierung.de/index_objektspezifikation.php.en
    Documentation on the full LMER extension schema is available at: http://www.d-nb.de/eng/standards/lmer/lmer.htm
    Tools:
    		The UOF is generated within kopal by the Java software library koLibRI. This open source software is currently available as beta version on our project homepage:
    http://kopal.langzeitarchivierung.de/index_koLibRI.php.en
    Contacts

    kopal in general: info@kopal.langzeitarchivierung.de
    UOF and LMER: Tobias Steinke, t.steinke@d-nb.de
     
    last updated: 2007-02-12
    last verified: 2007-02-12

    Florida Center for Library Automation

    Content
    Management System/Digital Object Repository

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    Description:
    		At the Florida Center for Library Automation, we receive digital objects (text, images, etc.) from the libraries of the public universities of Florida and some other institutions, and we mount these on our own servers for public use. We had been using a locally-designed XML document to transmit descriptive, administrative and structural metadata accompanying the data. We are in the process of switching from our own format to METS. The first submission system we've moved to METS is our ETDs
    Dates:
    		ETDs in production. Other systems will probably be switched by the end of the calendar year
    Sites:
    		none
    Docs:
    		http://www.fcla.edu/FCLAinfo/digit/etd/etdtf.html
    Tools:
    		Terms of availability not yet known
    Contacts
    		 Priscilla Caplan (administrative contact): pcaplan@ufl.edu
    Chris Vicary (technical contact): fclctv@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu
     
    last updated: 2003-07-30

    Florida Center for Library Automation, Florida Digital Archive

    FCLA Digital Archive
    (preservation archive)

     

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    Description:

    The Florida Digital Archive (FDA) is a long-term preservation repository for digital materials in support of teaching and learning, scholarship, and research in the state of Florida. The FDA uses locally developed software, called DAITSS, for ingest, management, and dissemination of digital materials, and for implementing preservation strategies based on
    reformatting (normalization, localization and forward migration). METS is used as a SIP descriptor (to describe information packages submitted for archiving), as an AIP descriptor (to describe information packages stored in the repository), and as a DIP descriptor (to describe information packages disseminated from the repository).
    Dates:
    		In production as of November 2005.
    Sites:
    		http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/
    Profiles:
    Status: Not registered
    Registered URI(s):  
    Docs: http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/pdfs/
    DAITSS_METS_SIP_Profile.pdf     [PDF - requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view; 718KB]
    External schema:
    dmdSec:

    MODS

    DC

    http://www.loc.gov/mods
    techMD:

    local schema

    		  
    sourceMD: none  
    rightsMD: none  
    digiprovMD: local schema  
    Docs:

    Documentation about the Florida Digital Archive is at http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/daInfo.htm
    Documentation about the DAITSS application is at
    http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/soft.htm
    Tools:
    		Any METS processing needed by the repository is handled by the DAITSS application, which will be available as license Open Source software in 2006.
    Contacts
    		 Priscilla Caplan (administrative contact): pcaplan@ufl.edu
     
    last updated: 2006-08-07

    Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum

    Retrospective Digitization, Göttingen State and University Library

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    Description:

    The GDZ (http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/) is the digitzation center of the State and University Library Göttingen. It digitized a large number of material and provides access to it (more than 1.5 Mio pages are online). Currently the material focuses on Mathematics, Travel Literature, History of Sciences.... Digitized material is provided as images in GIF/JPG or PDF. Fulltext is partly available to offer fulltext-retrieval. For each work bibliographic (from online-catalog) and structural metadata is provided. Structural metadata is captured manually (with OCR-support) using self-developed tools. For storage, retrieval and online presentation the GDZ uses the commercial "AGORA" document management system. Being a developing partner of the AGORA-system, the GDZs provides ideas and proposals of file-formats, document- and metadata models to the programmers of the AGORA-system.

    METS will be used in the internal workflow process and for archiving purposes. METS files won't be use for display on the web. Developments at the GDZ are based upon METS 1.2 to provide a sensible solution for storing and linking logical and physical structure entities.

    Dates:

    Using METS will be more an internal process of switching our workflow step-by-step using additonal/new/extended tools.

    a) We expect to have a converter for our currently used RDF/XML based format ready by summer this year. This converter will convert our RDF/XML files into METS. Using this converter will allow us to continue the usage of our own production tools.
    b) To support new features provided by METS our internal tools will have to be extended or will be entirely new written. This will effect the tools being used for capturing structural metadata and converting metadata from the OPAC. For this task no date can be given.
    c) We are working together with "Satz-Rechen-Zentrum", the programmers of "AGORA" to have a more flexible document model implemented in AGORA 2.0. Therefore AGORA 2.0 will be based on METS-files for import/export of retrodigitized material. Hopefully a first version of AGORA 2.0 can be provided at the end of this year (2003).

    Sites:
    		METS-based documents will be integrated in our document server as soon as the DMS can use METS-based files for import. THE DMS will not use METS for end-user display in the web. This is not expected to happened before the end of 2003. For single workflow steps it is expected that METS will be used in automn 2003. The URL for our document server is:
    http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/search-entry.shtml
    Docs:
    		Currently no specification is available online. Specifications will be published as soon as development has finished and first tools are in production use. For interested users/developers the GDZ is willing to share thoughts and ideas and therefore provides intermediate versions of their METS-application. Feel free to contact the GDZ via email.
    Tools:
    		Software will be made available to the public. Details (if source code will also be provided, terms and conditions of use etc) has been not yet decided.
    Contacts
    		 Markus Enders: enders@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de
     
    last updated: 2003-06-01

    Harvard University
    Harvard University Library

    Asynchronous delivery of biomedical image stacks

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    Description:
    		The Biomedical Image Library is a publicly accessible retrieval system for original digital micrographs that have been produced in support of basic biological research. XML descriptive metadata is held in a catalog, while METS files that identify the components of each "image stack" and the original images (TIFFs) and associated administrative and technical metadata reside in Harvard's Digital Repository. METS files for each stack simply list the components; relationships among files are expressed in descriptive metadata (series type, file naming convention, step type, number of steps, channel list, channel unit). Records in the catalog represent a project, which may contain hundreds of image stacks created with various samples, preparations, and instrument settings. For each stack, the catalog displays the thumbnail of one representative image from an image stack. The thumbnail links to both a full size version of the single image for online viewing and to the downloadable image stack. Users can select one or more image stacks from the project, and when they export their saved set, the metadata and the image files are zipped for pickup and the user is notified. The zip file unpacks into a file structure that preserves the hierarchy of the original project(s).
    Dates:
    		In production as of March 2003
    Sites:
    		URL to production system: http://nrs.harvard.edu/
    urn-3:hul.eresource:bioimlib
    Docs:

    Descriptive schema: http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/xml/
    xsd/bil/bil_schema.xsd
    Asynchronous delivery documentation: coming soon

    Tools:
    		Written to integrate with Harvard Digital Repository, so not generalized for external use.
    Contacts
    		 Lee Mandell, Programmer/Analyst, Office for Information Systems: lee_mandell@harvard.edu
     
    last updated: 2003-06-01

    Harvard University
    Harvard University Library

    Preservation Audio

     

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    Description:
    		Using METS to associate archival master, production master, and deliverable audio files, along with associated technical and process history metadata, AES-31 audio decision lists, opaque vendor-specific processing files, and waveform reduction files. AES-X098 audio object metadata is automatically extracted from AIFF and BWF files. Locally-written Castor-based schema-driven XML editor used to capture processing history. METS toolkit used to construct METS and to aggregate package for deposit into the Digital Repository Service (DRS).
    Dates:
    		Summer 2003
    Sites:
    		No public information available
    Profiles:
    Status: Using an unregistered, Harvard-defined profile
    Registered URI(s):  
    Docs:  
    External schema:
    dmdSec:    
    techMD:

    AES-X098B (Audio object schema)

    		  
    sourceMD:    
    rightsMD:    
    digiprovMD: AES-X098C (Process history schema)  
    Docs:

    Audio METS packaging tool (DMART) specification: http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/dmart/current/
    Tools:
    		METS toolkit available now: http://hul.harvard.edu/mets/
    Contacts
    		 Stephen Abrams, Digital Library Program Manager:
    stephen_abrams@harvard.edu
     
    last updated: 2006-02-25

    Harvard University
    Harvard University Library

    Page-turned Objects

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    Description:
    		Page Delivery Service (PDS) driven by METS file containing descriptive and structural metadata and external links to individual page images and OCR. A web-based maintenance system (PDSM) is available for
    editing the METS file. Permissible operations include editing of descriptive metadata; insertion, rearrangement, and deletion of the logical and physical structural hierarchy; addition, replacement, and deletion of page images and OCR. At the time the current version of the PDS was moved to production, approximately 4,000 page-turned objects based on MOA2 were extant. These were automatically converted to METS form.
    Dates:
    		March 2005
    Sites:
    		System web site: http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/pds/
    Profiles:
    Status: Using an unregistered, Harvard-defined profile
    Registered URI(s):  
    Docs:  
    External schema:
    dmdSec: MODS http://www.loc.gov/mods
    techMD:

     

    		  
    sourceMD:    
    rightsMD:    
    digiprovMD:    
    Docs:
    		PDS profile specification: http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/pds/
    Harvard_METS_Profile_for_Page-Turned_Objects.doc
    PDS maintenance system user guide: http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/pds/pdsm-userguide/
    Tools:
    		Availability to be determined
    Contacts
    		 Stephen Abrams, Digital Library Program Manager:
    stephen_abrams@harvard.edu
     
    last updated: 2006-02-25

    Indiana University Digital Library Program

    Online delivery of multi-page objects

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    Description:

    The Indiana University Digital Library Program delivers collections from the Libraries and the campus online, including both cohesive, “branded” collections that are targets of interest in and of themselves, and individual items from our general collections. Some branded collections have dedicated search/browse interfaces, while for individual items, we rely on links from more general discovery systems, such as our library catalog, IUCAT <http://iucat.iu.edu>, or our Indiana University Finding Aids discovery system <http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/findingaids/>. All items in collections with multi-page items and all multi-page individual items are delivered to end users with the METS Navigator tool.

    METS Navigator is a METS-based system developed by the Indiana University Digital Library Program for displaying and navigating sets of page images or other multi-part digital objects. Using the information in the METS <structMap> elements, METS Navigator builds a hierarchical menu that allows users to navigate to specific sections of a document, such as title page, specific chapters, illustrations, etc. METS Navigator also allows simple navigation to the next, previous, first, and last page image or component part of a digital object. More information on METS Navigator can be found on the METS Tools page <http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-tools.html>.
    Dates:
    		METS Navigator 1.0 Beta released April 2006.
    Sites:
    		Documentation and download available from <http://metsnavigator.sourceforge.net/>. Implementations of METS Navigator can be seen, for example, at <http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/general/pageturner/
    VAA3220-1917    > and <http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/lilly/
    janejohnson/LL-JJC-01    >.
    Profiles:
    Status: Registered
    Registered URI(s): http://www.loc.gov/mets/profiles/00000014.xml
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