From the email announcement:
"MODS includes a subset of data from the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic
Data. As an element set that allows for the representation of data already
in MARC-based systems, it is intended to allow for the
conversion of core fields from a MARC 21 record, while some specific data
may be dropped. As an element set for original resource description, it
allows for a simple record to be created, in some cases using more general
tags than those available in the MARC record. The Library of Congress has
developed transformations to move MARC 21 records from 2709 form to
MARCXML to MODS, with the software available from the MARCXML Web site."
"MODS could potentially be used as follows:
* as a Z39.50 Next Generation specified format
* as an extension schema to METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission
Standard)
* to represent metadata for harvesting
* for original resource description in XML syntax (using MARC
semantics)
* for representing a simplified MARC record in XML
* for metadata in XML that may be packaged with an electronic
resource"
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Out, out brief candle!
... it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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