I've been hearing about the potential of combining METS and TEI for a few 
years now, and I wonder if anyone can point me to some real examples. 
Thanks,

Perry Willett
University of Michigan
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Nicholas Finke wrote:

> What you say is, of course,  true.  What it has to do with METS is simply 
> that METS happens to be a format that right now has some acceptance in the 
> library community.  People are beginning to write tools for it and it turns 
> up a lot in job descriptions.  I agree there is nothing magic about it, but 
> it comes under the heading of avoiding unnecessary wheel reinvention.
>
>
> On Apr 21, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Lou wrote:
>
>> The suggestion of using a standoff structure to represent the physical page 
>> organisation is a good one.
>> I don't see what that has to do with METS necessarily though -- there's 
>> nothing to stop you defining the page structure in a separate document and 
>> linking it with your "conventional" TEI document in the usual way.
>> 
>> 
>> Nicholas Finke wrote:
>> 
>>> I haven't actually tried this but it seems to me that it might be a  good 
>>> idea to store page location info in a structure file in METS  rather than 
>>> in the TEI markup.   The METS file can use standoff-style  markup to 
>>> indicate what goes where on any particular page.  METS is  designed to do 
>>> this kind of thing.  It might still be a good idea to  link the notes to 
>>> the referring text rather than transferring them  there, but making the 
>>> structure explicit in a METS file should  ultimately be easier to work 
>>> with.
>>> 
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