- Introduction and Background: provides some generation information about the background and development of METS.
- Sections of a METS Document: provides reference about the various major sections of a METS document.
- METS Cookbook: provides examples of how to use the various elements and attributes of the METS schema for specific purposes.
- Complete Example: provides a complete worked example of a non-trivial METS document.
- METS Profiles: includes introductory material about METS profiles, but once again points to the more specific information found on the METS website about how to create METS profiles along with the list of registered profiles, and the sample instance documents that are required as part of registering a METS profile.
- External schema and Controlled Vocabulary: provides an overview of the use of external schemas with METS for the different categories of metadata that can be partitioned within it including descriptive and administrative metadata. The reader is directed to other sources of information for more specifics regarding the use of each schema that is endorsed by the METS Editorial Board.
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Appendix A contains a full METS document example drawn from a few scanned page image files from Martial, Epigrams (2v.) London, W. Heinemann; 1919-20.
Appendix B contains three sets of tables: ComplexTypes, Elements and Attributes arranged in alphabetical order for quick reference.