METS Navigator from the Indiana University Digital Library Program

Layout examples:

• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3

Functions of METS Navigator

• Display and navigation of multi-page objects
• Renders HTML
• Assumes discovery happens elsewhere

Technologies used

• Java Struts
• Castor Java & XML data binding libraries
• Ant
• Runs under a Web application server such as Apache Tomcat

Use of METS

• <fileSec>
• organized by size/function
• GROUPIDs link images to other sizes
• <structMap TYPE="physical">
• for sequential paging through a document
• <structMap TYPE="logical">
• drives table of contents navigation
• <div TYPE=""> controls whether or not a node displays

Next release

• Multi-volume works
• Better support for descriptive metadata
• More flexible layouts

METS profile soon to be released for comment