METS

File Format
Name	METS
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Metadata METS

Meet the Mets, meet the Mets, step right up and greet the Mets.

--Baseball team jingle, 1962 (MP3)

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

Specs

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

Other documents

• METS Primer and Reference Manual
• METS Overview and Tutorial

Sample files

• METS examples

Software

• Tools and utilities

Links

• Official website