RFC 6207 · INFORMATIONAL · 2011

The Media Types application/mods+xml, application/mads+xml, application/mets+xml, application/marcxml+xml, and application/sru+xml

Overview

RFC 6207, “The Media Types application/mods+xml, application/mads+xml, application/mets+xml, application/marcxml+xml, and application/sru+xml”, is an Informational document published in April 2011 by R. Denenberg. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document specifies media types for the following formats: MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema), MADS (Metadata Authority Description Schema), METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard), MARCXML (MARC21 XML Schema), and the SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL Response Format) protocol response XML schema. These are all XML schemas providing representations of various forms of information including metadata and search results. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

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Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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