The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC
Standards Office, with interested experts, has developed a schema for
a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes,
and particularly for library applications. As an XML schema, the "Metadata
Object Description Schema" (MODS) 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.
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Report on Bibligraphic Control Calls for Collaboration, Decentralization, and Nimble We... - 0 views
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Library Journal's response to the Library of Congress Working Group's 2007 report on the future of bibliographic control.
Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) - 0 views
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This site includes mappings, stylesheets, guidelines, example documents, tools and utilities, a registry and listserv, presentations, news & announcements, and related XML formats.
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Official Web Site - 0 views
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The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.
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This site includes extension schemas, example documents, profiles, a registry, presentations, suggested readings, tools & compatible software, a listserv, and a wiki.
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and Web-based. Its realization will occur in cooperation with the private sector, and with the
active collaboration of library users. Data will be gathered from multiple sources; change will
happen quickly; and bibliographic control will be dynamic, not static. "