METS Board meeting

Yesterday & today I attended the METS Board meeting, which followed on from the DLF Fall Forum in Philadelphia. I mostly listened and occasionally contributed to the discussion. There was a fairly strong theme of making METS machine-actionable, which seems to be a major concern of the board members. One possibility that came up during the discussions was that of creating a more conceptual API for METS, which I believe would result in the long term machine-actionability (is that a word?) of METS. The METS board are going to set up a working group on this issue and would like someone from the NLA to be part of it.

Other things reported at the meeting which I noted down:

• Use of METS in web archiving (ARC/WARC)?
• BL to adopt METS as "the" metadata standard.
• LC has released MIX 1.1.