Greetings,

I think we're working on parallel courses. At MATRIX, we've been
investigating and implementing OAIS for about a year now. We're certainly
planning on using METS in various Information Package roles, so we'd be very
interested in participating in the development of a METS Best Practices. Our
projects tend to be distributed across several countries, with partners of
various backgrounds and training, and we would be both eager and pleased to
share practices as they develop. We have a pressing need for such a guide as
well as an interest in helping to develop it.

So I find myself echoing Nancy - I'll volunteer us to work with the
community on developing a guide, but how do we go about coordinating a
working group?

Scott Pennington

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> From: Nancy Hoebelheinrich <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:29:59 -0800
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> Subject: Re: [METS] fledgling METS Best Practise?
>
> Hi, Guenter, et al:
> Don't know if you can hear the standing ovation from down here on the Farm
> about the idea of sharing best practice guidelines as they are being
> developed by METS implementers.   We here at Stanford are planning to use
> METS in an OAIS implementation as well, certainly for the SIPs & DIPs, and
> probably also for the AIPs.   We would certainly be willing to share our own
> practices as we make them up & find out what works, and would be quite eager
> to learn from others as well.  Such guidelines would go a long way to
> providing some documentation for the _operational_ aspects of applying METS
> which could distribute that workload, and provide many different
> perspectives on how METS could be used.  (NOT implying anything about the
> existing documentation associated with the schema, Jerry, I'm in awe!)
> Such Best Practice Guidelines would be helpful not only for the
> implementors, but also for the digital creators among our colleagues who are
> worried about how & where the metadata that is or has been created for their
> collections will be used & seen by searchers of the digital repository.  For
> many people, METS represents a paradigm shift that is different,  exciting,
> puzzling, I've found (and certainly it is for me as well as I'm learning how
> to apply it).
>
> So, how to do this?  We certainly have the mechanisms for sharing
> information by virtue of our LC sponsored web site.  Perhaps in addition to
> certain groups working on extension schema, others among us might work on
> how to document Best Practice Guidelines?  I'd be happy to volunteer to work
> with Guenter and/or others on this if the METS community thought this might
> be useful.
> Nancy Hoebelheinrich
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Guenter Waibel
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 9:20 AM
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> Subject: [METS] fledgling METS Best Practise?
>
>
> Greetings METS list,
>
> I was jolted out of my convenient state as a lurker on the list by
> MacKenzie's sideline about a standard METS implementation in an OAIS
> context.
>
> At 8:50 PM -0500 3/6/2002, MacKenzie Smith wrote:
>> Not that this tells you much, since we (the
>> METS community)
>> haven't yet defined a standard implementation of METS in the OAIS
> context...
>> something I hope we tackle soon...
>
> The Online Archive of California will adopt METS as an SIP, AIP and
> DIP as soon as it has passed DLF review. Since the OAC has made
> extensive use of MOA2, there already is quite some expertise in
> METS-like objects in the OAC and among its contributors. I am the
> chair of the OAC Digital Object Subcommittee, which has been charged
> with developing Best Practise Guidelines for the implementation of
> METS in the OAC as well as conversion of MOA2 objects into METS. I'd
> be extremely interested in hearing from other early implementors who
> have started to grapple with METS on an institutional scale. Are
> there already any fledgling best practise documents? Any other
> committees being convened elsewhere with a similar goal? I know
> everybody (including me!) is always very hesitant to share their
> imperfect works-in-progress, but maybe letting our pride rest for a
> minute would get us further in this case :-).
>
> Thanks,
> Guenter
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