Friday, July 25, 2003

MODS in OpenOffice.org? #

Quote: "It leaves out, for example, all publishing metadata (a document I author and modify may be published by my employer as a digital file on some particular medium) and recursive data (for instance, a subdocument may be authored by myself, modified by another, both of which are handled by OOo, but may be one part of a master document authored by another... the metadata for the recursive link to the master document is missing). While Dublin Core could provide some of this material, it does not have the granularity that MODS metadata has. Further, while it will be some time before MARC records are no longer used by libraries, the move toward an xml structured digital world increasingly makes the MODS standard a viable, international, and stable cataloging standard that various user agents and robots will be able to extract from other xml data. If it is truly too late to replace the current Dublin Core metadata (and some of the other metadata) with MODS metadata. Then, notwithstanding the recommendation to not double-up on metadata, I would strongly suggest that MODS be included wholly into OOo metadata with the data currently in the dc namespace being duplicated, when necessary. Further, I would then recommend an additional MODS tab on the File>Properties window to allow a complete bibliographic record of a document to be included in any OOo document. " Comment: First time I've seen anyone talk about fusing MODS with OpenOffice.org XML. Cool.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 7/25/03; 4:16:08 PM from the Web Technology dept. Discuss