METS Navigator is a Java application that displays and navigates multi-page digital objects using METS. It renders HTML and assumes discovery happens elsewhere. The technologies used include Java Struts, Castor Java & XML data binding libraries, Ant, and it runs under a Web application server. METS Navigator uses the <fileSec>, <structMap TYPE="physical">, and <structMap TYPE="logical"> sections of METS to organize files by size and function, provide sequential paging of documents, and drive table of contents navigation respectively.

1. METS Navigator
Jenn Riley
METS Implementors’ Meeting
June 15, 2006

2. Functions of METS Navigator
Display and navigation of multi-page
objects
 Renders HTML
 Assumes discovery happens elsewhere
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6. Technologies used
Java Struts
 Castor Java & XML data binding libraries
 Ant
 Runs under a Web application server such
as Apache Tomcat.
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7. Use of METS
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<fileSec>
 organized
by size/function
 GROUPIDs link images to other sizes
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<structMap TYPE="physical">
 for
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sequential paging through a document
<structMap TYPE="logical">
 drives
table of contents navigation
 <div TYPE=""> controls whether or not a node
displays

8. Next release
Multi-volume works
 Better support for descriptive metadata
 More flexible layouts
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METS profile soon to be released for
comment

9. For more information
http://metsnavigator.sourceforge.net
 jenlrile@indiana.edu
 Presentation at DLF, Spring 2005:
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http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/presentations/dlfSpring2005/metsNav.ppt

10. For more information
http://metsnavigator.sourceforge.net
 jenlrile@indiana.edu
 Presentation at DLF, Spring 2005:

http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/presentations/dlfSpring2005/metsNav.ppt