1. A Workshop Organized by the Mets Editorial Board DL2014 Workshops City University London September 11-12, 2014

2. This workshop is organized by......the METS Editorial Board An international group of volunteers charged with maintaining and promoting the specification Specification development initially sponsored by DLF Official maintenance agency is the LC Network Development and MARC Standards Office(LCNDMSO)

3. Current voting members: Karin Bredenberg, Swedish National Archives Terry Catapano, Columbia University Markus Enders, British Library Richard Gartner, Centre for e-Research, King's College, London Thomas Habing (Technical Co-chair), Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Knowledge Motifs LLC Jukka Kervinen, The National Library of Finland Jean-Philippe Moreux, Bibliothèque nationale de France Andreas Nef, Docuteam GmbH, Baden Betsy Post (Administrative Co-chair), Boston College Leah Prescott, Georgetown University Law Center Library Tobias Steinke, Project Kopal, German National Library Brian Tingle, California Digital Library Nate Trail, Library of Congress Robin Wendler, Harvard University

4. Board Priorities: Envisioning METS 2.0 Leverage the latest in Web technologies Metadata developments Maintain the 1.x standard Documentation Change Requests METS Profiles

5. METS essentials... METS provides...... a standardized framework for holding and exchanging metadata about complex digital objects An early introduction referred to METS “hub” document that was needed to draw together the dispersed but related files that make up a digital object.

6. Timeline MOA (1995) Primarily documents from Cornell and Michigan MOA2 (Nov. 1997-Jan. 2000) – Created a digital library standard which is immediate precursor to METS Funded by DLF, NEH, participants (Cornell, NPL, Penn State, Stanford, Berkeley) XML DTD defining explicit administrative, descriptive, and structural md METS (Feb 2001) DLF Workshop on Structural Metadata Outcome is METS Harvard, LC, MOA2 participants, others

7. Timeline (cont.) Grant for New Open Source Version of Fedora (9/2001) Stores objects in METS Reimagining METS White Paper (2010) Significant Changes to Make 1.x More Flexible addition of values to enumerated terms lists anyAttribute (v1.10, July 2013) CC Licenses for Schema and Documentation

8. Workshop Schedule Thursday 1:30-1:45 Introduction 1:45-2:15 METS 1.x Data Model Presentation 2:15-5:00 Panel of Experienced Implementers (this includes a 15 minute break at around 3:30) Friday 9:00-10:30 METS 2.0 Data Model Presentation 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-12:45 Open Discussion (METS Board, Panelists, and Audience)

9. Panelists Rob Sharpe, Operations Director, Preservica Digital Preservation (part of the Tessella Group), Abingdon England Joachim Bauer, Senior System Engineer, CCS Docworks, Hamburg, Germany Antoine Isaac, R&D Manager, Europeana, The Hague Area, Netherlands Karin Bredenberg, Technical Advisor, Metadata, Swedish National Archives, Stockholm County, Sweden Nate Trail, Digital Project Coordinator, NDMSO, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Principal, Knowledge Motifs, San Francisco Bay Area

10. Additional Contributors Markus Enders, Technical Architect, British Library, London, re IIIF Juha Lehtonen, Applications Architect, CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd., Espoo, Finland