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1) A short description of METS applications both planned and in production. OCLC is using METS in its Digital Archive implementation. The Digital Archive has 2 ways to ingest objects. The first way is for Web documents harvested and ingested object-by-object via the OCLC Connexion interface. The second way is for multiple objects via a batch ingest. The batch ingest process uses a stand-alone application (the Submission Builder) to take a tab-delimited metadata file and create a METS document. This METS document is part of a submission information package (SIP) sent to OCLC along with the content objects for batch ingest. The Connexion object-by-object ingest does not use METS. However, the dissemination of content ingest object-by-object does result in the transmission of a METS document. For more information on the OCLC Digital Archive and associated tools see http://www.oclc.org/digitalpreservation/services/archiving/ . 2) Projected dates of implementation (if not yet in production). In production. 3) URL to any publicly available production or demonstration implementations. There are two OCLC METS extensions available at http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/schemas/oclc_dm.xsd and http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/schemas/oclc_prov.xsd 4) URL to any available documentation or specifications for the implementations. Digital Archive end-user documentation is available at http://www2.oclc.org/digitalpreservation/documentation/ 5) An indication of whether any METS tools developed as part of the implementations are available to other METS implementers; and if so, under what terms (freeware, licensed software, etc.) The object-by-object harvester tools are available by annual subscription. These tools include a Web harvester and metadata creation. You can choose to store the objects harvested in the OCLC Digital Archive (for a monthly storage fee) or disseminate objects to your own archive. The Submission Builder is available to institutions wanting to batch ingest into the OCLC Digital Archive. Batch ingest users pay a per-batch fee and monthly storage fees. 6) Contact name and email address. Pam Kircher Product Manager, Digital Archive OCLC [log in to unmask] 614-764-6459 800-848-5878 x6459