a flexible set of mechanisms for transferring complex data objects between different systems.
In order to serve as an exchange syntax, OAI-ORE must be able to support the import of
information from localized data structures serving various communities of practice. In this
paper, we examine the Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS) and the issues
that arise when trying to map from a localized structural metadata schema into the OAI-ORE …