Hello list,

apologies for being late.

We have been experimenting with the METS profile. The new features are all
welcome,
especially the integration of xhtml elements to provide first multilingual
capabilities.

Even though we haven't got time to really experiment with the testGrp
element, it seems promising.

However, we made some additions to enhance the multilingual part in the
description of the profile and correct a little syntax error.
The resulting schemas is joined.
To demonstrate that we can express what we need, we made a very first
profile of our manifest. It's not ready for submission yet but we hope
it could help.

Some additionnal remarks on the schema;
- in external_schema element, we would like to be able to give the
targetNamespace (say with an optional targetNamespace element :-)
- moreover, being able to express multiple contacts will be easier,
especially if they can have a role associated with them (ie librarian,
institution, it, curator, ...)

Regards

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BnF preservation Team
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
IT Department
Quai François Mauriac
75706 Paris Cedex 13

mail: see mets profile :-)
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