All resources which will be loaded into UFDC must conform to both the national Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
(METS), as well as our local extension schemas. METS files include data about each file in a bibliographic resource, as well as descriptive and administrative information about the resource.
The bibliographic information can be encoded in either Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) or Dublin Core.
Processing information, and some bibliographic data, is encoded in a locally-defined schema. In addition to the main UFDC extension schema, other project and resource specific extension schemas may be created.
During the normal workflow at the Digital Library Center, METS files are created by the Quality Control Application, and then reviewed by our text technicians. Much of the
bibliographic data for these METS files are imported from the catalogue record, when one exists. Stand-alone tools will also be available shortly to code UFDC-compliant METS files.
The METS file for any item loaded in UFDC can be viewed by selecting METS Metadata under the Technical Data menu on the navigation bar to the left of an item being viewed.
