METS: A Status Report

Jerome McDonough
Digital Library Development Team Leader
New York University

This briefing will provide an update on the progress of the Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS) initiative, an effort to define a common format for encoding digital library objects and their metadata. It will include an overview of current software development efforts, and a discussion of METS profiles, which allow organizations to specify restrictions on the METS format for local applications.