The Harvard METS toolkit gives you an convenient (though DOM-like) API for the METS data model, takes care of some of the housekeeping, and it has logic to prevent schema mistakes:
http://hul.harvard.edu/mets/ There's also a toolkit that helps you build a whole submission package, including the METS. It ought to work with SWORD too; see: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_SIP_Toolkit (If you develop any tricks or procedures for using it with SWORD, please add them to that wiki page!) -- Larry On Jun 5, 2009, at 5:25 AM, mikan.d.dspace listmail wrote: > Im hoping to use SWORD in order to deposit items to DSpace. What would > be the best way to produce mets-metadata for the items to be > submitted? Should I write the entire metadata file myself or is there > templates / frameworks available for this? > > Thanks, > Mika ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
