This guide provides documentation and detailed examples of usage for the Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS) schema, version 2. Detailed documentation for METS 1 is also available.
The published version of this site is available at https://mets.github.io.
- Introduction and Background: provides some general information about the background and development of METS.
- Sections of a METS Document: provides a reference to the different main sections of a METS document.
- METS How-Tos: provides examples of how to use the various elements and attributes of the METS schema for specific purposes.
- Complete Example: provides a complete working example of a non-trivial METS document.
- External schema and Controlled Vocabulary: provides an overview of the use of external schemas with METS for the different categories of metadata that can be partitioned within it including descriptive and administrative metadata.
- METS Profiles: contains introductory material on METS profiles.
This guide is descriptive rather than normative: the schema itself and the generated schema reference are authoritative for METS as a standard.