SUL/AIR uses the MARC21 record for transmitting descriptive metadata for “traditional” library resources like hard copy books and journals. What will be used for the digital resources?
SUL/AIR will be using the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) for moving all of the different kinds of metadata into the digital archive. METS is an XML based protocal that allows us either to wrap the metadata that is newly created when a digital resource is born, or reference metadata that already exists in a MARC or Dublin Core record, thus allowing us to leverage efforts already expended as well as disk storage space for our metadata and content.
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