METS Implementation Registry
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).
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| Institution/Project |
Project
Details |
Biblioteca Nacional -- National
Library of Portugal
Biblioteca Nacional Digital -- National Digital
Library |
| Description:
|
The BND - "Biblioteca Nacional Digital" (National
Digital Library) is an initiative with three major fronts: deposit
of digital works (BN is the deposit library in the country), digitization
of our traditional collections (manuscripts, printed works, etc.)
and development of our on digital born works (especially reference
works). To manage and preserve all of this we need a quite large and
reliable infrastructures for management and storage, and all of that
at an affordable price. We intend to assure that through an affordable
and easily scalable Linux based GRID solution for the storage, METS
as the structural metadata, UNIMARC as the main descriptive metadata,
and probably FEDORA as the key component of the management and exploitation
framework. So far we have been using an internal XML based structural
metadata schema, and we learned that METS is really what we were looking
for to move to the next stage. |
| Dates:
|
1- Detailed analysis and testing of METS, FEDORA and
"GRID technology"
for storage: August 2003
2- Basic prototype of the infrastructure and services: December 2003
3- Advanced prototype of the infrastructure and services: April-May
2004
4- Fully functional solution: August 2004
Step 1 will be performed by our internal team and close partners.
Steps 2 to 4 will be mainly subcontracted outside!!! |
| Sites:
|
BND: http://bnd.bn.pt
(only in Portuguese...) |
| Docs:
|
None yet |
| Tools:
|
We intend to release all the software to be developed
by ourselves as
Open Source |
| Contacts |
José Borbinha, jose.borbinha@bn.pt |
|
| California Digital Library
Content Management System/Digital Object
Repository |
|
| Florida Center for Library Automation
Union Catalog of Digital Materials
|
| 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, pcaplan@ufl.edu
(administrative contact);
Chris Vicary, fclctv@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu
(technical contact) |
|
| Florida Center for Library Automation
FCLA Digital Archive
(preservation archive)
|
| Description:
|
We are investigating METS as a SIP and DIP for our FCLA
Digital Archive, a preservation archive under development. |
| Dates:
|
July 1, 2003 |
| Sites:
|
none |
| Docs:
|
none |
| Tools:
|
Terms of availability not yet known |
| Contacts |
Priscilla Caplan, pcaplan@ufl.edu
(administrative contact);
Chris Vicary, fclctv@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu
(technical contact) |
|
| Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum
Retrospective Digitization, Göttingen
State and University Library |
| 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 |
|
| Harvard University
Harvard University Library
Asynchronous delivery of biomedical image
stacks |
| 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 |
|
| Harvard University
Harvard University Library
Preservation Audio
|
| 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-draft
Core audio will be extracted from AIFF files. This file is intended
for use by audio preservation engineers. It is not being used to drive
delivery to end-users. Locally-written schema-driven XML editor used
to capture processing history. METS toolkit used to construct METS
and to aggregate package for deposit into Digital repository. |
| Dates:
|
Summer 2003 |
| Sites:
|
Not applicable |
| Docs:
|
Not available yet |
| Tools:
|
METS toolkit available now. Schema-driven XML editor
will be made available. |
| Contacts |
Stephen Abrams, Digital Library Program Manager,
stephen_abrams@harvard.edu
|
|
| Harvard University
Harvard University Library
Page-turned Objects |
| Description:
|
Convert current MOA2 page-based applications to METS.
Currently, the Page-Turner itself uses MOA2, and related and auxiliary
systems such as a complex-object maintenance system, the Digital Imaging
Lab's production systems, the library's full-text indexing system,
and the Digital Repository deposit system are designed to interact
with MOA2 files. |
| Dates:
|
To be determined |
| Sites:
|
Not yet available |
| Docs:
|
Not yet available |
| Tools:
|
Availability to be determined |
| Contacts |
Stephen Abrams, Digital Library Program Manager,
stephen_abrams@harvard.edu
|
|
| Library of Congress
Audio-Visual Prototyping Project |
| Description:
|
The Library of Congress Audio-Visual Prototyping Project
is exploring aspects of digital preservation for digitally reformatted
and "born-digital" recorded sound and moving image collections. Preservation
reformatting is being carried out in the Library's Motion Picture,
Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division and the American Folklife
Center. Guidance about metadata is being provided by the Library's
Network Development and MARC Standards Office. The project is using
METS to encode the metadata for digital objects, positioning them
as proposed Submission Information Packages ("SIPS" in the lingo of
the OAIS reference model) for a future Library of Congress repository.
Today, the reproduction or "essence" files and the METS XML documents
are being managed in UNIX filesystems in the Library's storage area
network. The document at the URL cited in 4 below lays out the arrangement
of extension schemas that we are using as of February 2003. Our structures
for audio-file technical information and digiprov metadata owe a great
debt to work being carried out as a part of the Harvard University
Library Digital Initiative and as an activity of the Audio Engineering
Society. The text technical metadata schema has been taken from the
work of Jerome McDonough, Elmer Bobst Library, New York University.
|
| Dates:
|
During 2001-02, the Project contributed to the development
of METS and also began to implement it. At this time, about 1,000
digital objects are complete or nearly completion, while another 3,000
are "in the pipeline." |
| Sites:
|
PowerPoint representation of one of our viewers, as
of March 2002. http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/avprot/present2/index.htm
|
| Docs:
|
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/avprot/metsmenu2.html |
| Tools:
|
We are willing to discuss tool availability, but do
not feel that our tools are mature at this point. Expressions of interest
may be sent to me (see next item for contact) or to Morgan Cundiff
(mcundiff@loc.gov), who oversees the METS standard at the Library
of Congress. |
| Contacts:
|
Carl Fleischhauer (cfle@loc.gov) |
|
| MIT
DSPACE |
| Description:
|
MIT is working on an implementation of METS for the
DSpace systems. The team is developing a new METS profile for institutional
repositories of heterogenous content. We are developing an extension
schema for our extensions to Dublin Core (following the as yet unfinalized
Library Application Profile), and for technical metadata as implemented
by multi-format repositories. When the profile is complete, DSpace
will reimplement its export routines to support METS as an option,
and will create an offline copy of the system's content with METS
AIPs. We will also be investigating ingest of METS objects that conform
to our profile, to support things like mirroring between institutions
running the DSpace system. This is part of our short-term strategy
for OAIS compliance, and we're also considering the relationship between
METS and RDF |
| Dates:
|
Probably summer/fall, 2003 |
| Sites:
|
None |
| Docs:
|
Future |
| Tools:
|
These will be made available, once they're done, as
part of the DSpace open source code. |
| Contacts |
MacKenzie Smith (kenzie@mit.edu)
or
Margret Branschofsky (margretb@mit.edu)
|
|
| OCLC
Digital Archive Implementation |
| Description:
|
OCLC is using METS in its Digital Archive implementation.
The Digital Archive has 2 ways to ingest objects. The first way is
for Web documents harvested and ingested object-by-object via the
OCLC Connexion interface. The second way is for multiple objects via
a batch ingest. The batch ingest process uses a stand-alone application
(the Submission Builder) to take a tab-delimited metadata file and
create a METS document. This METS document is part of a submission
information package (SIP) sent to OCLC along with the content objects
for batch ingest. The Connexion object-by-object ingest does not use
METS. However, the dissemination of content ingest object-by-object
does result in the transmission of a METS document. For more information
on the OCLC Digital Archive and associated tools see http://www.oclc.org/digitalpreservation/services/archiving/
. |
| Dates:
|
In production |
| Sites:
|
There are two OCLC METS extensions available at http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/schemas/oclc_dm.xsd
and http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/schemas/oclc_prov.xsd
|
| Docs:
|
Digital Archive end-user documentation is available
at http://www2.oclc.org/digitalpreservation/documentation/
|
| Tools:
|
The object-by-object harvester tools are available by
annual subscription. These tools include a Web harvester and metadata
creation. You can choose to store the objects harvested in the OCLC
Digital Archive (for a monthly storage fee) or disseminate objects
to your own archive. The Submission Builder is available to institutions
wanting to batch ingest into the OCLC Digital Archive. Batch ingest
users pay a per-batch fee and monthly storage fees. |
| Contacts |
Pam Kircher
Product Manager, Digital Archive
OCLC
kircherp@oclc.org
614-764-6459
800-848-5878 x6459 |
|
| Oxford University
Oxford Digital Library |
| Description:
|
METS forms the central metadata for the Oxford Digital
Library (http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk),
currently being established using materials from libraries within
Oxford University. An in-house mySql/PHP system of webforms is used
for cataloguing, using qualified Dublin Core fields: METS files are
automatically generated by this system. |
| Dates:
|
www.odl.ox.ac.uk |
| Sites:
|
The system isn't publicly available |
| Docs:
|
Metadata guidelines at http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/guidelines |
| Tools:
|
None available at this point |
| Contacts |
Richard Gartner, rg@bodley.ox.ac.uk |
|
| RLG
RLG Cultural Materials Service |
| Description:
|
RLG uses METS to organize and store complex objects
within the RLG Cultural Materials service. Cultural Materials provides
access to digital materials and their descriptions. RLG creates METS
objects to describe works that include multiple digital objects or
views. We use XSLT to transform XML representations of the work into
METS, based on data provided to us by Cultural Materials contributors.
When such a work is viewed in Cultural Materials, the structural details
of the object, its description, and its related digital materials
can all be consistently navigated by basing that process on the METS
object. RLG uses XSLT to transform the METS object into an instance
of an HTML viewer, using JavaScript to replicate the METS representation
and to implement viewer functions |
| Dates:
|
In operation since January 2003. |
| Sites:
|
RLG Cultural Materials subscribers can find METS-supported
works through the service at http://culturalmaterials.rlg.org.
RLG will make available more background information on this implementation,
including sample implementations accessible to non-subscribers, later
this year. |
| Docs:
|
An RLG web site for this information will be established
and announced later this year. |
| Tools:
|
Availability of tools will be determined as part of
the development of the RLG METS background web site |
| Contacts |
Bruce Washburn, btw@notes.rlg.org |
|
| Stanford University Library/Academic Information
Services
Stanford Digital Repository |
| Description:
|
SUL/AIR is using METS as the metadata engine for all
digital content destined for the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR).
The SDR will support born digital content acquired for the Stanford
collections, Stanford library and special collections materials reformattted
for purposes of improved access and preservation of source materials,
holdings of Highwire Press, and research and coursework related content
of Stanford departments and faculty determined to be of permanent
value. We are building an extension schema for descriptive metadata
based on Dublin Core, but plan to use existing MARC, TEI, EAD, FGDC,
and DDI metadata as available. For technical metadata for still images,
we plan to use MIX, and extensions to METS for other formats as applicable.
|
| Dates:
|
In production spring 2003 |
| Sites:
|
Not yet available |
| Docs:
|
For metadata:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ts/tsdepts/cat/units/metadata/docs/taskfor
ce/SUL_DataDictionary.pdf |
| Tools:
|
None available at this time. |
| Contacts |
Nancy Hoebelheinrich: nhoebel@stanford.edu |
|
| University of Alberta
Peel's Prairie Provinces Project |
| Description:
|
The University of Alberta will be using METS for its
Peel's Prairie Provinces project--a digital library containing citations
and searchable full-text images of Western Canadian resources. The
collection currently consists of digitized monographs, and will expand
to include non-textual resources as well. Images are in TIFF and derived
PNG format, with text files in UTF-8, formatted in XML. METS will
be used to store the objects' descriptive, administrative and structural
metadata, but will not be used to drive the end-user interface. The
descriptive metadata is formatted in qualified Dublin Core, using
the Library Application Profile. The use of existing extension schemas
to encode technical and administrative metadata will be explored.
METS files will be automatically generated from descriptive metadata
stored in a Site Search database, and a set of XSL stylesheets will
be created to transform the digital information in Olive ActivePage
XML repositories into METS records. |
| Dates:
|
METS implementation to begin this year. |
| Sites:
|
Not yet available. |
| Docs:
|
Not yet available. |
| Tools:
|
XSL stylesheets will be available to transform Olive
ActivePage XML files into METS. We will be interested in sharing any
similar tools available. |
| Contacts |
Susan Dahl
Metadata & Cataloguing Librarian
University of Alberta
susan.dahl@ualberta.ca
Peter Binkley
Digital Initiatives
Technology Librarian
University of Alberta
peter.binkley@ualberta.ca
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
The University Library
Archival Collections |
| Description:
|
Largely on a grant-supported project basis, the UC Berkeley
Library continues to digitize portions of its archival collections.
To support this work, UCB has developed a suite of tools around the
MOA2.DTD capable of gathering the necessary metadata and producing
and disseminating MOA2 compliant digital objects. Currently the Library
Systems Office is converting these tools to produce and disseminate
METS compliant objects. |
| Dates:
|
Current calendar year. Conversion to METS substantially
complete, but awaiting completion of appropriate administrative metadata
extension schemas. |
| Sites:
|
Not yet available. |
| Docs:
|
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~rbeaubie/metsucb/METSatUCB.htm |
| Tools:
|
Availability of any METS tools being developed. UCB's
METS tools may be available to other educational/non-profit organizations
for non-profit use. Interested parties should contact Director of
Library Technologies: Bernie Hurley: bernie@library.berkeley.edu
. |
| Contacts |
Rick Beaubien, Lead Software Engineer, Research and
Development: rbeaubie@library.berkeley.edu
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
The University Library
Stored Materials: Table of Contents/Indexes |
| Description:
|
The UC Berkeley Library stores a large amount of relatively
low-use material at a remote storage facility. To improve researches
ability efficiently to review and select relevant materials from storage,
the library is digitizing the tables of contents and indexes of selected
volumes in storage, and packaging these as METS objects. Records in
the online catalog for the stored materials will include a link to
the corresponding METS object for the table of contents and indexes.
|
| Dates:
|
Current calendar year (tentative). |
| Sites:
|
Not yet available |
| Docs:
|
Not yet available |
| Tools:
|
Availability of any METS tools being developed. UCB's
METS tools may be available to other educational/non-profit organizations
for non-profit use. Interested parties should contact Director of
Library Technologies: Bernie Hurley: bernie@library.berkeley.edu
|
| Contacts |
Michael Conkin, Programmer/Analyst III.
mconkin@library.berkeley.edu |
|
| University of California, Berkeley
The University Library
Repository of CS Tech Reports with OAI interface
|
| Description:
|
To replace our Dienst infrastructure, UC Berkeley Library
Systems office is proposing to archive existing and new CS Tech Reports
as METS objects. An OAI interface to the repository will be built
in order to participate in current federated indexes, and additional
search facilities will be added. |
| Dates:
|
Current calendar year. Project in planning phase. |
| Sites:
|
Not yet available |
| Docs:
|
Documents relating to the project will be posted at:
http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu/~gmills/metsoai.
|
| Tools:
|
Availability of any METS tools being developed. UCB's
METS tools may be available to other educational/non-profit organizations
for non-profit use. Interested parties should contact Director of
Library Technologies: Bernie Hurley: bernie@library.berkeley.edu
|
| Contacts |
Garey Mills Programmer/Analyst III
gmills@library.berkeley.edu |
|
| University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library
Digital Collections |
| Description:
|
METS is being used to store the digital objects created
for our
digitization projects. These objects are currently transformed via
XSLT into the Greenstone Archive format and loaded into the Greenstone
Digital Library Software for delivery to the end user. Alternate
mechanisms for end-user delivery will be considered as appropriate.
Descriptive metadata is encoded in MODS; a collection using Dublin
Core is scheduled. METS will also be used as a submission information
package format for archiving projects. |
| Dates:
|
First site made public in March, 2003 |
| Sites:
|
http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/
|
| Docs:
|
None available yet |
| Tools:
|
None available yet |
| Contacts |
Tod Olson, Sr. Programmer/Analyst: tod@uchicago.edu |
|
| University of Graz, Austria
Austrian Literature Online |
|