The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is coordinating a demonstration project to create a model Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Profile for thematic research collections, using the Walt Whitman Archive, http://www.whitmanarchive.org as a model. The Whitman Archive, which uses TEI, EAD, TIFF, and MODS, is a complex project that offers an outstanding means of exploring the promise of METS to encourage interoperability of metadata standards. Contracting with the University of Virginia and Brown University, UNL is testing the use of METS to manage the submission and retrieval of collection materials into two different open sources catalogs. METS Profiles for digital thematic research collections are being developed and will be added to the METS Implementation Registry, and a report will be made available at the end of the project.

Presentations:

Terry Catapano, Mid-Atlantic Archives Conference, 2006.

Katherine Walter, Brett Barney, Julia Flanders, Terry Catapano, and Daniel Pitti, Digital Humanities 2007 (Juried).

People:

Project Directors

Katherine L. Walter, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Project team at UNL

Brett Barney
Stacey Berry
Mary Bolin

Consultants

Terence Catapano, Columbia
Julia Flanders, Brown University
Daniel Pitti, IATH

Open Source Library Catalog experts

Patrick Yott, Brown University
Thornton Staples, University of Virginia
Ross Wayland, University of Virginia