# METS 1.12

Source: https://xmlvalid.com/schemas/mets-1.12

> Packages of digitised objects: files, structure maps and the metadata that goes with them.

METS wraps a digital object, such as a scanned book, with its files, its physical and logical structure and descriptive and administrative metadata. Digitisation workflows and preservation systems exchange it.

- Type: XSD
- Version: 1.12.1
- Namespace: `http://www.loc.gov/METS/`
- Root element: `mets`
- Publisher: Library of Congress (Published by the Library of Congress), source: https://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets.xsd
- Validate against it: https://xmlvalid.com/validate?schema=mets-1.12

## Notes

- Metadata embedded in mdWrap (MODS, Dublin Core, PREMIS) is accepted as is, as the schema allows; validate it separately against its own schema.
- Links to files are not followed.
- The example is by xmlvalid.com.