 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).
Registry Table of Contents (linked, by institution and project):
- The Bancroft Library - Mark Twain
Papers Online (last updated 2007-11-14)
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive - Digital Asset Management Database (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
(last updated 2005-05-11)
- Biblioteca Nacional -- National Library
of Portugal - Biblioteca Nacional Digital -- National
Digital Library (last updated 2006-08-07)
- Brown University Library - Center
for Digital Initiatives (last updated 2007-02-28)
- California Digital Library - UC
Libraries Digital Preservation Repository (last updated
2007-11-14)
- California Digital Library - eScholarship
Editions (last updated 2007-11-14)
- California Digital Library - Online
Archive of California/Calisphere (last updated 2007-11-14)
- Chinese Ministry of Education - Chinese
Digital Museum Project (last updated 2005-08-16)
- Culturnet Cymru (last updated 2004-05-10)
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek -- German
National Library (last updated 2007-02-12)
- Florida Center for Library Automation
(last updated 2003-07-30)
- Florida Center for Library Automation,
Florida Digital Archive (last updated 2006-08-07)
- Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum
(last updated 2003-06-01)
- Harvard UniversityHarvard University
Library - Asynchronous delivery of biomedicalimage stacks
(last updated 2003-06-01)
- Harvard UniversityHarvard University Library
- Preservation Audio (last updated 2006-02-25)
- Harvard UniversityHarvard University Library
- Page-turned Objects (last updated 2006-02-25)
- Indiana University Digital Library
Program - Online delivery of multi-paged objects
(last updated 2007-08-27)
- Indiana University Digital Library Program
- Sound Directions (last updated 2006-08-07)
- Indiana University Digital Library Program
- Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis
Digital Archive (EVIADA) (last updated 2006-08-30)
- Library of Congress - Audio-Visual
Prototyping Project (last updated 2007-01-31)
- Library of Congress - The Library of
Congress Presents... Music, Theater, and Dance (last
updated 2007-01-09)
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/ National
Library of Wales - Y Drych Digidol / The Digital Mirror
(last updated 2003-07-30)
- Ministry of Culture, Spain - Biblioteca
Virtual de Prensa Histórica/ Virtual Library of Historical
Press (last updated 2006-01-22)
- Ministry of Culture, Spain - Biblioteca
Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico / Virtual Library of
Bibliographic Heritage (last updated 2008-02-23)
- MIT - DSPACE (last updated
2007-08-01)
- National Diet Library, Japan - NDL
Digital Archiving System (last updated 2007-09-17)
- OCLC - Digital Archive Implementation
(last updated 2006-03-08)
- Oxford University - Oxford Digital
Library (last updated 2005-01-26)
- PERSEE - Portail de Revues Scientifiques
en Sciences Humaines et Sociales (last updated 2006-05-16)
- RLG - RLG Cultural Materials Service
(last updated 2007-08-01)
- Stanford University Library/Academic Information
Services - Stanford Digital Repository (last updated 2007-08-24)
- University of Alberta - Peel's Prairie
Provinces Project (last updated 2003-06-01)
- University of California, Berkeley -
The University Library Archival Collections
(last updated 2008-01-14)
- University of California, Berkeley - The
University Library Stored/Obscure Materials: Tables of Contents
(last updated 2008-01-14)
- University of California, Berkeley - The
University Library Repository of CS Tech Reports with OAI
interface (last updated 2008-01-14)
- University of California, San Diego,
Libraries - Digital Asset Management System (last
updated 2008-02-23)
- University of Chicago - University of
Chicago Library Digital Collections (last
updated 2003-06-01)
- University of Graz, Austria - Austrian
Literature Online (last updated 2003-06-01)
- University of Michigan - MBooks
(last updated 2008-02-23)
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| 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 |
| |
|
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| Description:
|
The Center for Digital Initiatives
(CDI) focuses its efforts in three areas:
- Production of digital materials for use
in scholarship and teaching at Brown.
- Digitization of "signature collections"
from Brown's world renowned Special Collections.
- 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 |
| |
|
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| 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). |
| |
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| 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: |
|
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| 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: |
|
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| 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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of Page |
| 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: |
|
| 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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of Page |
| 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: |
|
| External
schema: |
| dmdSec: |
none specified |
|
| techMD: |
none specified |
|
| sourceMD: |
none specified |
|
| rightsMD: |
none specified |
|
| digiprovMD: |
none specified |
|
|
| Docs:
|
http://metsnavigator.sourceforge.net/projectDoc/index.shtml |
| Tools:
|
METS Navigator is built using
Java and open source Web technologies, including
the Apache Struts Web Application Framework,
the Castor Java & XML Data Binding libraries,
and Ant. METS Navigator runs in server environments
that provide:
* Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4 or greater.
Note that METS Navigator requires the Java SDK.
* A Java Servlet container, such as Apache Tomcat,
that supports the Servlet API Specification,
version 2.2 or later, and the JavaServer Pages
(JSP) Specification, version 1.1 or later. METS
Navigator has been tested with Tomcat 4.1.30
and 5.5.15.
More information on system requirements is
available from the project documentation at
http://metsnavigator.sourceforge.net/projectDoc/index.shtml |
| Contacts: |
Jenn Riley, jenlrile@indiana.edu
|
| |
last updated:
2007-08-27
last verified: 2007-08-27 |
|
| Indiana
University Digital Library Program
Sound Directions
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of Page |
| Description:
|
Indiana University and Harvard
University are collaborating on a project to
exchange METS-based "preservation packages"
containing digital audio and all related supporting
files necessary for ingestion into a preservation
repository. These packages will be similar,
but not identical, to existing METS practice
at each institution. |
| Dates:
|
A profile should be developed and
first test exchanges of preservation packages
performed by the end of 2006. |
| Sites:
|
Sound Directions Project home page
<http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/> |
| Profiles: |
| Status: |
Under development |
| Registered URI(s): |
|
| Docs: |
|
|
| External
schema: |
| dmdSec: |
under consideration |
|
| techMD: |
AES-X098B (Audio object schema) |
|
| sourceMD: |
under consideration |
|
| rightsMD: |
under consideration |
|
| digiprovMD: |
AES-X098C (Process history schema) |
|
|
| Docs:
|
Under development |
| Tools:
|
Under development |
| Contacts: |
Jenn Riley, jenlrile@indiana.edu
|
| |
last updated:
2006-08-07 |
|
| Indiana
University Digital Library Program
Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and
Analysis Digital Archive (EVIADA)
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of Page |
| Description:
|
The EVIADA project is a joint
effort of Indiana University and the University
of Michigan to establish a digital archive of
ethnomusicological video for use by scholars
and instructors. We are using METS to store
annotations (descriptive metadata) created by
ethnomusicological field researchers together
with detailed technical and structural metadata
describing the source video and multiple digitized
versions of this video. |
| Dates:
|
The project is ongoing. |
| Sites:
|
EVIADA project home page <http://www.indiana.edu/~eviada/> |
| Profiles: |
| Status: |
Under development |
| Registered URI(s): |
|
| Docs: |
|
|
| External
schema: |
|
| Docs:
|
Under development |
| Tools:
|
Applications are built in Java,
using Castor with JBuilder X. Indexing, search,
retrieval and maintenance of the native MODS in
METS XML documents are stored in the Oracle 9i
Release 2 XDB. |
| Contacts: |
Jenn Riley, jenlrile@indiana.edu
|
| |
last updated:
2006-08-30 |
|
|
Library of Congress
Audio-Visual Prototyping Project
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of Page |
| Description:
|
The first phase of the Library of
Congress Audio-Visual Prototyping Project was
carried out from 1998-2003. The overall effort,
including later phases in which METS is not being
actively implemented, explores aspects of digital
preservation for digitally reformatted and born-digital
recorded sound and moving image collections. In
all phases,
preservation reformatting is being carried out
in the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting,
and Recorded Sound Division and the American Folklife
Center. During the first phase, the project used
METS to encode the metadata for digital objects,
positioning them as proposed Submission Information
Packages (SIPS) for a future Library of Congress
repository. Guidance about metadata was provided
by the Library's Network Development and MARC
Standards Office. An online document (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/avprot/metsmenu2.html)
lays out the arrangement of extension schemas
that were in use as of February 2003. The 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 was been taken from the work of Jerome
McDonough, then of Elmer Bobst Library, New York
University.
|
| Dates:
|
During 2001-02, the Project contributed
to the development of METS and also began to implement
it. By the end of the active period, in 2003,
about 1,000 digital objects had been completed,
while another 3,000 were"in the pipeline." |
| Sites:
|
PowerPoint representation of an
object 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:
|
None brought to a point where they
were ready to shares. |
| Contacts:
|
Carl Fleischhauer, Office of Strategic Initiatives,
cfle@loc.gov.
|
| |
last updated:
2007-01-31
last verified: 2007-1-31 |
|
| Library
of Congress
The Library of Congress Presents... Music, Theater,
and Dance
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of Page |
| Description:
|
The Library of Congress Presents...
Music, Theater, and Dance is a web-based digital
library application comprised of performing arts-related
items from the Library's collections. Included
are scores, sheet music, photographs, sound recordings,
videos, concert programs, manuscripts, books,
and other formats.
|
| Dates:
|
In production |
| Sites:
|
http://www.loc.gov/lcp
|
| Profiles: |
|
| |
|
| Docs:
|
No documentation currently available.
Documentation will be made available in the future |
| Tools:
|
No tools currently available |
| Contacts:
|
Morgan Cundiff: mcundiff@loc.gov |
| |
last updated:
2007-01-09 |
|
| Llyfrgell
Genedlaethol Cymru/ National Library of Wales
Y Drych Digidol / The Digital Mirror:
Top
of Page |
| Description:
|
Y Drych Digidol / The Digital Mirror
contains the fruits of the National Library of
Wales digitisation programme. At present METS
is used for management of files and in the presentation
of complex digital objects which have been reformatted
for access as part of the Treasures programme
and which require a page-turning facility. MARC21
is used for the main descriptive and preservations
metadata. Delivery is based on an adaptation of
one of the METS viewers developed by Leslie Myrick
at New York University. At present we are developing
an automated system for generating METS documents
and further adaptations to the METS viewer to
deal with the requirements of different object
types. |
| Dates:
|
1. Decision to use METS, January
2002
2. First use of METS for delivery using METS viewer,
May 2003
3. Development of automated generation of METS
documents, April 2004 |
| Sites:
|
Y Drych Digidol / The Digital Mirror:
http://www.llgc.org.uk/
drych/index_s.htm
Trysorau-Treasures: http://www.llgc.org.uk/
drych/drych_s004.htm
Thomas Jones, Pencerrig: http://www.llgc.org.uk/pencerrig/ |
| Docs:
|
Some documentation available on
preparation of METS documents, please contact
us. |
| Tools:
|
Adaptation of NYU METS viewer. Cocoon
on Tomcat for METS->HTML XSL transform for
delivery. XSL stylesheets available on request. |
| Contacts |
Lyn Lewis Dafis: lvd@llgc.org.uk
Illtud Daniel: ild@llgc.org.uk |
| |
last updated:
2003-07-30 |
|
| Ministry
of Culture, Spain
Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica/
Virtual Library of Historical Press
Top
of Page |
| Description:
|
The Virtual Library of Historical
Press is the result of a process of cooperative
digitizing by the Ministry of Culture and the
Autonomous Communities and other memory institutions,
whereby the intention is not only to preserve,
but also to offer access to bibliographic materials
that are denoted for being unique copies. The
infra-structure for the BVPH has been developed
using METS as the structural metadata and for
linking image files to pages. It feeds dynamically
an OAI repository using a tool that generates
Dublin Core records. It is an OAI data provider. |
| Dates:
|
Website launch: February 2003 |
| Sites:
|
Sites available in all the Spanish
official languages plus English.
Access to the VLHP:
http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/prensahistorica/en/consulta/busqueda.cmd
|
| Profiles: |
None |
| External
schema: |
|
| Docs:
|
No documents available at this time |
| Tools:
|
No tools currently available. |
| Contacts |
María Luisa Martínez-Conde: martinez.conde@mcu.es
|
| |
last updated:
2006-01-22
last verified: 2008-02-23 |
|
|
Ministry
of Culture, Spain
Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico
/ Virtual Library of Bibliographic Heritage
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of Page |
| Description:
|
The Virtual Library of Bibliographical
Heritage is a cooperative project of the Ministry
of Culture and the Autonomous Communities which
aims to distribute printed books and manuscripts
from Spain's Historical Heritage. The infra-structure
for the VLBH has been developed using METS as
the structural metadata and for linking image
files to pages. It feeds dynamically an OAI repository
using a tool that generates Dublin Core records.
It is an OAI data provider. |
| Dates:
|
Website launch: September 2007 |
| Sites:
|
Sites available in all the Spanish
official languages plus English.
Access to the VLBH:
http://bvpb.mcu.es
|
| Profiles: |
None |
| External
schema: |
|
| Docs:
|
No documents available at this time |
| Tools:
|
No tools currently available. |
| Contacts |
María Luisa Martínez-Conde: martinez.conde@mcu.es
|
| |
last updated:
2008-02-23
last verified: 2008-02-23 |
|
|
MIT
DSPACE
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of Page |
| Description:
|
MIT is in the process of implementing
METS in DSpace systems. METS is used in DSpace
to control the submission of content via the Lightweight
Network Interface (LNI), the generation of AIPs
via the AIP Prototype, and the dissemination of
content via the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI PMH). The team is preparing three new METS
profiles for institutional repositories of heterogenous
content. This first profile governs the creation
of Submission Information Packages (SIP) for deposit
in DSpace via the LNI. In preparing this profile
we have defined the use of MODS for descriptive
metadata, PREMIS for technical metadata and Creative
Commons for copyright metadata. This profile is
complete and has been submitted to the METS Board
for registration. A second profile to govern the
creation of Archive Information Packages (AIP)
has been drafted and is under review. This profile
defines the use of the DSpace Intermediate Metadata
(DIM) format, an internal xml format used in xsl
transforms from DSpace metadata tables. It also
defines the use of ABC Harmony to capture a history
of events for DSpace objects, REI to capture policy
metadata and the DSpace Deposit License. A third
profile to govern the use of METS as a Dissemination
Information Package (DIP) via the OAI PMH will
be undertaken in the near future |
| Dates:
|
DSpace METS SIP Profile –
Spring 2007
DSpace METS AIP Profile – Summer 2007
DSpace METS DIP Profile – Soon |
| Sites:
|
DSpace @ MIT http://dspace.mit.edu/ |
| Profiles: |
| Status: |
| SIP packages |
Submitted
for registration |
| AIP packages |
Under review |
|
| Registered URI(s): |
|
| Docs: |
|
|
| External
schema: |
|
| Docs:
|
Future |
| Tools:
|
Lightweight Network Interface: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/HistorySystemPrototype
DSpace AIP Prototype: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/AipPrototype
DSpace History System Prototype: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/HistorySystemPrototype
DSpace Event System Prototype: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/EventSystemPrototype
PLEDGE Policy Prototype: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/PledgePolicyPrototype
|
| Contacts |
MacKenzie Smith: kenzie@mit.edu
Robert Wolfe rwolfe@mit.edu |
| |
last updated:
2007-08-01
last verified: 2007-08-01 |
|
| National
Diet Library, Japan
NDL Digital Archiving System
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of Page |
| Description:
|
NDL Digital Archiving system is
a system for preserving and providing access to
digital materials over the long term. This system
is designed to be compliant with the OAIS and
to be capable of large-scale and flexible expansion
of storage.
|
| Dates:
|
In production |
| Sites:
|
NDL Digital Archiving System:
http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/aboutus/ndl-da.html
(in Japanese)
Metadata schemas:
http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/standards/da/index.html
(in Japanese)
|
| Profiles: |
| Status: |
none |
| Registered URI(s): |
none |
| Docs: |
none |
|
| External
schema: |
|
| Docs:
|
Guideline: http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/standards/da/da.pdf
(in Japanese) |
| Tools:
|
none |
| Contacts |
Makoto Fujiwara : ml-meta@ndl.go.jp
|
| |
last updated:
2007-09-14
last verified: 2007-09-14 |
|
|
OCLC
Digital Archive Implementation
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of Page |
| Description:
|
OCLC is using METS in its Digital
Archive service. The Digital Archive supports
two methods of object ingest: web harvest and
batch submittal. Web documents can be harvested
and ingested object-by-object via the OCLC Connexion
interface. For batch submittals, OCLC has created
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 Archive creates METS objects for all
dissemination packages as well. For more information
on the OCLC Digital Archive and associated tools
see http://www.oclc.org/digitalarchive. |
| Dates:
|
In production |
| Sites:
|
No public site. For information
on the OCLC Digital Archive see: http://www.oclc.org/digitalarchive |
| Profiles: |
| Status: |
Not currently using a registered
profile |
| Registered URI(s): |
|
| Docs: |
|
|
| External
schema: |
|
| Docs:
|
Digital Archive end-user documentation
is available at http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/digitalarchive |
| Tools:
|
The METS packaging tools are available
to users of the Digital Archive
service. |
| Contacts |
Taylor Surface
Manager, Digital Collection Services
OCLC
Taylor_surface@oclc.org
614-761-5145
800-848-5878 x5145
Shweta Rani
Senior Software Engineer
OCLC
shweta_rani@oclc.org
toll free: +1 800 848 5878 x5350
direct: +1 614 761 5350 |
| |
last
updated: 2006-03-08 |
|
| Oxford
University
Oxford Digital Library
Top
of Page |
| 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 when
the metadata input is complete, the DC fields
being converted to embedded MODS records for descriptive
metadata. |
| Dates:
|
In operation since August 2002 |
| Sites:
|
The system isn't publicly available
|
| Profiles: |
|
| 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 |
| |
last updated:
2005-01-26 |
|
| PERSEE
Portail de Revues Scientifiques en Sciences Humaines
et Sociales
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of Page |
| Description:
|
PERSEE, is a French program initiated
by the research community, who are keen for their
scientific output to have greater visibility,
and established by the Ministry of State Education,
Higher Education and Research. It has as its missions
the digitization and the online distribution of
back collections of a vast corpus of scientific
journals in social and human sciences. The PERSEE
website provides free and public access to whole
collections of selected scientific periodicals.Within
this context, the METS model is used to represent
series, issues and articles. |
| Dates:
|
In production since January 2005 |
| Sites:
|
Web site : http://www.persee.fr/
OAI data provider : http://oai.persee.fr/oai.do
|
| Profiles: |
| Status: |
Completed but not yet registered |
| Registered name(s): |
Not yet registered but available as
listed below:
http://www.persee.fr/profiles/mets/
persee_series_mets_profile.xml
http://www.persee.fr/profiles/mets/
persee_issues_mets_profile.xml
http://www.persee.fr/profiles/
metspersee_articles_mets_profile.xml |
| Docs: |
Not yet available |
|
| |
|
| Docs:
|
Not yet available |
| Tools:
|
Both the production line and the
dissemination portal are developed under Open
Source licence. Sources should soon be available
together with a complete documentation. |
| Contacts:
|
Viviane.Bouletreau@univ-lyon2.fr
raphael.maurel-segala@mom.fr
information@persee.fr |
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last updated:
2006-05-16 |
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RLG
RLG Cultural Materials Service
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| Description:
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Prior to its merger with OCLC, RLG
used METS to organize and store complex objects
within the RLG Cultural Materials service. Cultural
Materials provided access to digital materials
and their descriptions. RLG created METS objects
to describe works that included multiple digital
objects or views. It used XSLT to transform XML
representations of the work into METS, based on
data provided to us by Cultural Materials contributors.
When such a work was viewed in Cultural Materials,
the structural details of the object, its description,
and its related digital materials could all be
consistently navigated by basing that process
on the METS object. RLG used 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:
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Started operation since January
2003; currently unavailable |
| Sites:
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No longer active |
| Docs:
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None |
| Tools:
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None |
| Contacts |
Bruce Washburn: btw@notes.rlg.org |
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last updated:
2003-06-01
last verified: 2007-08-01 |
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Stanford University Library/Academic Information
Services
Stanford Digital Repository
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| Description:
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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, and Stanford library and
special collections materials reformattted for
purposes of improved access and preservation of
source materials. We are moving from the use of
a Dublin Core based schema to MODS for descriptive
metadata. In terms of technical metadata, we are
using MIX for still images, a subset of an AES
draft standard for audio metadata, and the textMD
schema for textual resources. We are using PREMIS
for preservation metadata, and while longer term
decisions are being made about rights metadata,
we are using the PREMIS rights schema within the
rightsMD section. |
| Dates:
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In production Since January 2006
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| Sites:
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http://library.stanford.edu/depts/dlss/collections/sdr.htm |
| Docs:
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None at this time |
| Tools:
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None publicly available at this
time. |
| Contacts |
Nancy Hoebelheinrich: nhoebel@stanford.edu |
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last updated:
2007-08-24
last verified: 2007-08-24 |
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University of Alberta
Peel's Prairie Provinces Project
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| Description:
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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 External 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.
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| Dates:
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METS implementation to begin this
year. |
| Sites:
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Not yet available. |
| Docs:
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Not yet available. |
| Tools:
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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 |
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last updated:
2003-06-01 |
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| University
of California, Berkeley
The University Library
Archival Collections
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| Description:
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Largely on a grant-supported project
basis, the UC Berkeley Library has digitized and
continues to digitize portions of its archival
collections and selected rare and fragile materials.
The digitized materials are exported as METS objects
with MODS encoded descriptive metadata and MIX
technical metadata for any image content. Most
of these METS objects are then ingested into the
California Digital Library's
Online Archive of California/Calisphere |
| Dates:
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In production, ongoing |
| Sites:
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Most METS versions of U.C. Berkeley
Library archival and rare materials are available
through sites maintained by the California Digital
Library: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
and
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/ |
| Profiles: |
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| External
schema: |
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| Docs:
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http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/mets/presentations/UCBCaseStudy.htm |
| Tools:
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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 |
Giulia Hill, Software Engineer:
ghill@library.berkeley.edu
Rick Beaubien, Software Engineer, Research and
Development: rbeaubie@library.berkeley.edu
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last updated:
2008-01-14
last verified: 2008-01-14 |
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University of California, Berkeley
The University Library
Stored Materials and Obscure Materials: Tables
of Contents
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| Description:
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To improve researchers' ability
efficiently to review and select relevant materials
from stored and obscure collections, the U.C.
Berkeley Library is digitizing the tables of contents
for these materials, and packaging these as METS
objects. These METS objects includes MODS descriptive
metadata derived from MARC metadata in the online
catalog. |
| Dates:
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In production; ongoing |
| Sites:
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Available through the UC Berkeley
online catalog |
| Profiles: |
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| External
schema: |
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| Docs:
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Not yet available |
| Tools:
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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 |
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last updated:
2008-01-14
last verified: 2008-01-14 |
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University of California, Berkeley
The University Library
Repository of CS Tech Reports with OAI interface
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| Description:
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To replace its Dienst infrastructure,
the U.C. Berkeley Library is archiving existing
and new CS technical reports as METS objects with
MODS descriptive metadata, and making these objects
available for OAI harvesting. For OAI purposes,
descriptive metadata is made available in Simple
DC format derived from the native MODS encodings. |
| Dates:
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In production; ongoing |
| Sites:
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The technical reports can be
searched and viewed locally at http://techreports.lib.berkeley.edu.
In addition to this local technical reports
website, the technical reports are available
through OAI service providers such as OAIster
(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple).
The OAI repository interface is registered as
"UCB Technical Reports Repository"
at http://www.openarchives.org
.
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| Profiles: |
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| External
schema: |
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| Docs:
|
|
| 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 |
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last updated:
2008-01-14
last verified: 2008-01-14 |
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University of California, San Diego
Libraries
Digital Asset Management System
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| Description:
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The UC San Diego Libraries has
developed a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS)
in order to manage and provide access to its digital
collections. Data for objects are stored as RDF
Triplets within the system. Objects can be exported
as METS objects in compliance with the UCSD registered
profiles. This METS export functionality is designed
for transferring digital object data to the California
Digital Library’s Digital Preservation Repository
and for sharing the data with other potential
content portals. |
| Dates:
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In production. Implemented with
database in excess of 300,000 objects encompassing
image, audio, video, pdf files, etc. |
| Sites:
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UCSD DAMS is an internal tool not
yet made available to the public. |
| Profiles: |
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| External
schema: |
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| Docs:
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No documentation available |
| Tools:
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No tools available |
| Contacts |
Digital Library Office, dlo@ucsd.edu
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last updated:
2008-02-23
last verified: 2008-02-23 |
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University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library
Digital Collections
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| Description:
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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:
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First site made public in March,
2003 |
| Sites:
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http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/ |
| Docs:
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None available yet |
| Tools:
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None available yet |
| Contacts |
Tod Olson, Sr. Programmer/Analyst:
tod@uchicago.edu |
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last updated:
2003-06-01 |
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| University
of Graz, Austria
Austrian Literature Online
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University of Michigan
MBooks
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| Description:
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MBooks is the University of Michigan's
online access system to the Library's digitized
collections, particularly the volumes that have
been scanned through our partnership arrangement
with Google. At present, the implementation provides
searching (of all volumes) and pageturning (of
public domain volumes) of digitized materials
located through Mirlyn, the online catalog for
the University of Michigan libraries. Alternate
access points and collection creation and searching
are under
development. |
| Dates:
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In production. |
| Sites:
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Two examples are provided below:
Masters in art; a series of illustrated monographs.
v.2 (Boston 1901)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015055275872
Football for player and spectator by Fielding
Yost (Ann Arbor, 1905)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015002370743
Others can be found through conducting an "Advanced
Search" in Mirlyn and restricting the Format
to "Electronic Resources" |
| Profiles: |
| Status: |
In progress |
| Registered URI(s): |
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| Docs: |
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| External
schema: |
| dmdSec: |
none |
Descriptive metadata is
stored externally to the METS objects |
| techMD: |
none
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| sourceMD: |
none |
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| rightsMD: |
none |
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| digiprovMD: |
premis |
http://www.loc.gov/premis |
|
| Docs:
|
The MBooks FAQ is the only public
documentation at this point:
http://mdp.lib.umich.edu/m/mdp/mdp-faq.htm |
| Tools:
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The MBooks pageturner is available
as part of the DLXS release 13 at http://dlxs.org/products/release13.html
. While the pageturner is open source, there are
dependencies on licensed software, such as XPat.
|
| Contacts |
Chris Powell, sooty@umich.edu
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last updated:
2008-02-23
last verified: 2008-02-23 |
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