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MODS and MADS: Current implementations and future directions

July 2, 2010October 26, 2016| Gretchen Gueguen

MODS and MADS: Current implementations and future directions ALA Annual Conference 2010 Sunday, June 28, 2010 10:30 to noon Intro, Jenn Riley: Metadata Librarian, Indiana U. Digital Library Program MODS 3.4 schema released June 2010. MODS/MADS editorial committee considering overall direction for MODS 4.0. mods 3.4 has support for RDA descriptions better handling of subject vocabularies (specify vocabulary at relevant subject subelements, specify vocabularies and terms by URI. Better support for multilingual cataloging expanded the use of the usage attribute expanded use of the displayLabel attribute. Ability to bind a specific name to a title to create a Uniform title. The ability to mark selected elements as containing cataloger-supplied data (rather than brackets, etc.). Various changes to make the schema itself for consistent, easier to manage and of greater utility to other applications importing elements from the MODS namespace. For mods 4.0 thinking of a more formal data model, maybe…

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