The METS Registered Profiles, http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-registered-profiles.html, are required to have at least one sample METS document in their appendices. It's a little extra work to extract the METS files from the profiles, but these should give you a large variety of different METS documents with which to work. Regards, Tom > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Sullivan, Mark V > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 7:11 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Sample METS files > > All, > > I am working on expanding the currently functionality of the open-source > SobekCM METS Editor ( http://ufdc.ufl.edu/metseditor , > http://sourceforge.net/projects/metseditor/ ) to allow it to be both more > extensible for various unforeseen metadata formats, and to analyze division > and file level dmdSec's and amdSec's. > > Is there an existing repository of a large variety of METS files available > somewhere for testing against? If anyone knows, please respond to this > thread. > > If you are willing to share a couple METS files for my testing, I would be most > appreciative. Please send any METS files directly to me ( > [log in to unmask] ) and indicate if you would be willing to add it to a > METS repository for testing purposes, assuming we don't find one already > exists. > > Thank you all in advance, > > Mark / UF