apeMETS

The use of METS in the Archives Portal Europe

The Archives Portal Europe team first started using METS during the APEx project (2012-2015). The information of the first apeMETS implementation from 2014 can still be found on the website of the APEx project en is now completely transferred to this page. Recently, August 2017, the Archives Portal Europe team conducted a first revision of this apeMETS implementation under supervision of the Working Group on Standards of the Archives Portal Europe Foundation, namely the adaptation of the apeMETSRights schema. This was necessary to be able to align the apeMETSRights values and statements with the ones the portal is using for forwarding content to Europeana.

First apeMETS implementation - April 2014

With the publication of the report "State of the art (SOTA) report on METS and recommendations for its implementation in the Archives Portal Europe", Deliverable D4.7 of the APEx Project, on 28 April 2014, the first implementation of apeMETS in the Archives Portal Europa was completed. The report:

• explains how the apeMETS profile was developed within the APEx project
• deals with how the apeMETSRights profile was built
• encodes the descriptions of 1) apeMETS and 2) apeMETSRights
• describes the use of apeMETS, including the local use of apeMETS besides the use in the portal
• presents different cases of using METS in conjunction with the Archives Portal Europe
• explains shortly how a conversion script was developed to transform an apeEAD file with several constituent links per archival unit into an apeEAD file plus newly-created apeMETS files in order to link to digital objects in a more structured way
• gives some general ideas on how apeMETS could be developed into a topic for the planned Archives Portal Europe Foundation (APEF)