Jerome et al,
With regard to a provisional endorsement of the MARCXML schema, is it
possible that the editorial board will endorse MODS in addition to MARCXML?
Given this note from your message "...will endorse particular extension
schema for use with METS, particularly in cases where a variety of XML
schema exist providing alternate encodings of the same metadata set.", I
wonder if the endorsement of MARCXML suggests that a similar endorsement of
the MODS schema may not be forthcoming?
regards,
patrick
At 04:19 PM 7/8/02 -0400, you wrote:
>The METS document format accommodates institutions' needs to set local
>practice with regards to descriptive and administrative metadata by allowing
>people to use their own XML extension schema to specify descriptive and
>administrative metadata, rather than specifying particular metadata element
>sets within the METS format itself. However, this flexibility is to
>some degree in tension with the desire to have different digital library
>systems
>interoperate and to have METS objects be freely exchangeable. To help
>promote the interoperability of METS objects, the METS editorial board will
>on occasion endorse particular extension schema for use with METS,
>particularly
>in cases where a variety of XML schema exist providing alternate encodings
>of the same metadata set.
>
>The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative has released an XML schema for encoding
>unqualified Dublin Core metadata in XML. This schema is available from the
>DCMI website at:
>
>http://www.dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/
>
>The METS editorial board has provisionally endorsed the use of this schema
>for encoding Dublin
>Core metadata within METS documents, and at this time invites feedback from
>the METS
>community on this endorsement, which may be submitted either the to the
>METS mailing
>list, or directly to the board by e-mailing [log in to unmask] If
>there are no
>objections voiced to this endorsement, it will become final two weeks after
>this announcement.
>
>The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office has
>released
>an XML schema for MARC21 metadata, which is available at:
>
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/
>
>The METS editorial board has also provisionally endorsed the use of this
>schema for encoding
>MARC21 metadata within METS documents, and invites feedback from the METS
>community
>on this endorsement. As with the unqualified Dublin Core schema, if no
>objections are voiced,
>the endorsement will become final after two weeks time, and comments may be
>sent to
>either the METS mailing list or to [log in to unmask] for
>distribution to the METS
>editorial board directly.
>
>
>
>
>Jerome McDonough
>Digital Library Development Team Leader
>Elmer Bobst Library, New York University
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