Ah! Thanks, Tom. The first one I clicked on was wicked interesting. ;) -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Habing, Thomas Gerald Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 9:54 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Sample METS files 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