Metadata Object Description Scheme

The Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) is an XML format for bibliographic metadata . It is developed and administered as an XML schema by the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress ; version 3.6 has been available since July 2015.

MODS was developed as a compromise between the complexity of MARC (a very detailed bibliographic exchange format ) and the Dublin Core , which is too simple for many applications . Therefore there are corresponding XML elements for many - but not for all - MARC fields in MODS. In addition, there are elements in MODS that are not compatible with MARC. In contrast to the MARC numerical codes, the elements were named in English. The Library of Congress provides a number of XSLT scripts for converting between Dublin Core, MARC and MODS .

MODS is supported by a few reference management programs, including BibDesk , JabRef and Zotero . But the data model is also used in document servers. For example, MODS is B. implemented in MyCoRe . There are also examples of mapping e.g. B. from DSpace to MODS. Advanced users and programmers can use the command line-oriented program package Bibutils to convert between various formats (ADS, BibLaTeX , BibTeX , COPAC , EndNote Refer, EndNote XML, PubMed XML, ISI Web of Science , RIS and Microsoft Word 2007 bibliography) via MODS .

example

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<mods version="3.3"
    xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd">
    <titleInfo>
        <title>Buch der Lieder</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
        <namePart>Heine, Heinrich</namePart>
        <role>
            <roleTerm type="text">creator</roleTerm>
        </role>
    </name>
    <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
    <originInfo>
        <place>
            <placeTerm type="text">Hamburg</placeTerm>
        </place>
        <publisher>Hoffmann und Campe</publisher>
        <dateIssued>1827</dateIssued>
    </originInfo>
    <language>
        <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ger</languageTerm>
    </language>
    <location>
        <url>http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Buch_der_Lieder</url>
    </location>
</mods>

See also

• Machine exchange format for libraries (MAB)
• Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard (METS)

Web links

• official MODS website of the Library of Congress (English)
• MODS mailing list archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of the release of version 3.6 (English)
2. ^ Use of MODS for institutional repositories . ( Memento of November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) wiki.surf.nl; accessed on October 31, 2013
3. ↑ DSpace to MODS mappings . ( Memento of November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) wiki.surf.nl; accessed on October 31, 2013
4. ↑ ADS is the bibliographic data format of the SAO / NASA Astrophysics Data System; see format description .
5. ↑ For the COPAC format, see the COPAC website .
6. ↑ bibutils on SourceForge