June 12, 2024 Board Meeting

Attendees

• Aaron Elkiss (chair)
• Karin Bredenberg (notes)
• Juha Lehtonen
• Andreas Nef
• Robin Wendler

Agenda and notes

iPres poster submission

• We are waiting for the result.
• Karin will send out notice to the board when the result are in.

METS Primer

Status

• Work is on-going
• We have several branches for this currently

Chapter 3

• Juha is working on chapter 3

Splitting

• Aaron has started to divede it up
• Chapter 2 and 3 might be possible to merge
• Chapter 2 is also covered in https://github.com/mets/METS-board/blob/mets2/web%20documents/metsoverview.md
  • Can we use the overview text instead?

Examples

Inge have started to work with the example and have these questions:

• Q: Ideally material that are in public domain so its possible to see the resource, but where to find a good example ; PDF , PDF/A, data set ; .
  • Robin and Aaron will look. Aaron will respond! One option might be to use on of our own PowerPoints for an iPres tutorial.
• Q: what to do with all optional elements and attributes ; for now these attributes have the default value as generated by the METS2 schema
  • Not all attributes needs to be in the example
• Q: for now I skipped mdRef and binData in this example ; what are the ideas how complete the example should be?
  • Ok!

Presentation

We need to think about how it will be presented some options are:

• https://saa-sdt.github.io/EAS-Best-Practices/
• https://saa-ts-dacs.github.io/
• https://gist.github.com/pierrejoubert73/902cc94d79424356a8d20be2b382e1ab

We agreed that the TS EAS one is mostlikely the best one for us. CAn be implemented later on but we need to have it in mind.

Profiles

Looking at https://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-profiles.html and the sub page https://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/profile_docs/components.html we can see that on the first page it needs to be updated so that it is for profiles for METS 1. When it comes to the second page almost all the information is in the profile schema for METS 2 except a starting summary.

Needed on the webpage is a pointer to the description of profiles for METS 2 that are in the primer. Request will be sent to Glenn in a txt document when all is ready.

Todo

• Add summary in profile schema for METS 2 (Aaron)
• Creation of example profile akin to https://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/profile_docs/mets_profile_example.xml
• Where should the Overview for version 2 be placed? In the repository for the Primer? Guidance on translations?