METS Reader & Writer

By Artefactual

METSRW is a library to help with parsing and creating METS files. It provides an API, and abstracts away the actual creation of the XML. METSRW was initially created for use in Archivematica and is managed as part of that project.

You are free to copy, modify, and distribute metsrw with attribution under the terms of the AGPL license. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contents:

• Reading METS files
  • Accessing METS Data
  • Accessing PREMIS Data
• Writing METS Files
  • Building METS Documents
  • Serialization
• metsrw API Documentation
  • METSDocument
  • FSEntry
  • Metadata classes
  • Validation
  • Exceptions
• premisrw API Documentation
  • Conversion functions
  • PREMIS Element Types

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page