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 > > -- > -- > Raymond Yee 44 Barrows Hall, #3810 > Technology Architect UC Berkeley > Interactive University Project Berkeley, CA 94720-3810 > [log in to unmask] 510-642-0476 (work) > http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee 413-541-5683 (fax) -- ------------------------------------- Karen Coyle Digital Library Specialist http://www.kcoyle.net Ph: 510-540-7596 Fax: 510-848-3913 --------------------------------------