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LOC METS

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Library of congress METS; Metadata encoding and transmission standard

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The Library of Congress (LOC) Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is an XML (Extensible Markup Language) based format used for encoding metadata. The metadata is used to markup digital library objects in a repository or for exchange across repositories. METS is a Digital Library Federation initiative that is a successor to the Making of America II project (MOA2).

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The MOA2 project attempted to provide encoding formats for descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata for text and image-based documents. (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSOverview.v2.html) The Digital Library Federation (DLF) sponsored the project and the National Endowment for the Humanities funded it. MOA2 involved discussions led by the University of California, Berkeley with participants from New York Public Library and the libraries of Cornell, Penn State, and Stanford universities. The...

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  1. Gartner R. METS: Metadata encoding and transmission standard. JISC Techwatch Report. 2002.

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  2. Guenther R, McCallum S. New metadata standards for digital resources: MODS and METS. Bull Am Soc Inf Sci Technol. 2003;29(2):12–5.

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  1. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Prasenjit Mitra

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Amr El Abbadi

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Mitra, P. (2018). LOC METS. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_878

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