DLF Spring 2006
MIT's CWSpace
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Which Packaging Spec.?
•Content packaging specifications are  generic loose envelopes to carry content, metadata
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•Choice of package is largely determined by user community
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•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

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