•Content packaging specifications aregeneric loose
envelopes to carry content,
metadata
•
•Choice of package is largely determined by user community
•
•DSpace to use METS internally
•Higher Education uses IMS Content Packaging
•METS
•IMS-CP
•MPEG-21 DIDL
•XFDU
The ability to
package content is widely needed, and so various domains have created their
own specifcations:METS fin the
Libraries domain, IMS-CP in higher ed., DIDL is in use commercially and
elsewhere, and XML Formatted Data Units is used in Aerospace
This project
really only considered METS and IMS-CP to any extensive degree
Note that METS
will be central to the DSpace platform's internal metadata representation in
its next major release ("DSpace 2"), while IMS-CP is extensively
used by higher education platforms