MODS
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MODS


The Metadata Object Description Schema is now at version 2.0. MODS is basically MARC lite expressed as XML.
[It] is intended to be able to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records. It includes a subset of MARC fields and uses language-based tags rather than numeric ones, in some cases regrouping elements from the MARC 21 bibliographic format.




- Metadata Authority Description Schema
In response to numerous requests, the Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office has drafted an XML schema for an authority element set that may be used to provide metadata about agents (people, organizations), events, and...

- Marc & Metadata
Vol. 22, no. 1 of Library Hi Tech includes many papers of possible interest.Metadata and librarianship: will MARC survive? Bradford Lee EdenCyril: expanding the horizons of MARC21 Jane W Jacobs; Ed Summers; Elizabeth AnkersenThe MARC standard and encoded...

- Marc 21 Lite
MARC 21 LITE is a subset of the MARC21 standard. It is intended to be used when the full MARC21 scheme would be too complex. It could be used by smaller libraries, for bibliographies, or material of an ephemeral nature.The MARC 21 LITE Bibliographic Format...

- Marc21
A few changes have been made to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions. The most commonly useful may well be:MARC Format Sources Changes: mods- Metadata object description schema (subfield $2 in Bibliographic records in field...

- Marc21 & Xml
Library of Congress announces standard MARCXML schemaThe Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office announces completion of a schema for MARC 21 records in an XML structure for use in communicating MARC 21 records. This schema was...



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