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Metadata Authority Description Schema

Some news about the Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS).

Please note that we've made some changes to the draft MARC authorities to MADS mapping, since we discovered in writing the stylesheet for conversion that the authority attribute was missing. That became very complicated particularly because of LCSH coding rules. A revision is up. Please let us know if you see and possible errors.
It's still called preliminary until we test some records with the stylesheet, which we're working on. We also plan to issue the stylesheet to convert MARC authorities to MADS in the near future. Then we hope people will experiment with it.

MADS

- Mads 2.0 User Guidelines
News from LC. The MADS 2.0 User Guidelines http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/userguide/index.html are now available on the Library of Congress' MADS Web site: http://www.loc.gov/mads, along with the XML schema itself, an Outline of Elements and Attributes,...

- Metadata Authority And Description Schema 2.0
Image via WikipediaNews from LC. The MODS/MADS Editorial Committee and the Library of Congress are pleased to announce a new version of the Metadata Authority and Description Schema, MADS version 2.0. This is the first major revision of MADS since its...

- Mads, Request For Comments
A request for comments from the MADS folks. The MODS/MADS Editorial Committee has released a draft the MADS 2.0 XML Schema for community review and testing. Your comments are invited on the draft schema, posted at http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads-2-0-draft.xsd...

- Mads/rdf Ontology For Review
The Library of Congress is looking for feedback on the MADS/RDF ontology. A MADS/RDF ontology developed at the Library of Congress is available for a public review period until Jan. 14, 2011. The MADS/RDF (Metadata Authority Description Schema in RDF)...

- Marcxml Authorities To Mads Stylesheet
LC has made available a MARCXML authorities to MADS stylesheet. MARC MODS...

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