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Raymond, 

Are you just referring to the URLs for the schemas, or should this also
apply to the identifier? i.e. should both of these indicate a version,
or just the URL to the schema?:

xmlns:METS = "http://www.loc.gov/METS/"
xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.loc.gov/METS/
           http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets.xsd"

I notice that MODS includes a version number in its identifier as well
as the schema location, which seems to me to be a good idea. That brings
up the issue of legacy data (i.e. METS records already in circulation),
but they would be identifiable due to their lack of a version -- which
doesn't get you to the right version, but lets you know that it might
not be the latest one.

kc

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 11:42, Raymond Yee wrote:
> I think that in addition to having the URL for the current version of
> METS ( http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets.xsd) it would be useful to
> have a working URL for the current version labelled by the version number.
> That is, http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version13/mets.xsd should
> lead to the 1.3 schema and not generate  a 404 error, which it does
> right now.
> 
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version11/mets.xsd (for v1.1) and
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version12/mets.xsd (for v1.2) work.
> Presumably, when we move to version 1.4,
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version13/mets.xsd will come into
> existence.
> 
> Is there a reason why
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/version13/mets.xsd will not exist
> (presumably) until 1.4 becomes the official version? What do others think?
> 
> -Raymond Yee
> 
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