Let me counter Karen's question with another one - what would be the
rationale for continuing to include romanized data in MODS records?
Joe Zeeman
The Library Corporation
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> Subject: MODS, Unicode & 880's
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> I was looking at MODS for a place to put our 880 data, not that we have a
> particular need at the moment but I'd been thinking about Unicode
> and MARC,
> and MODS came to me as a solution to some issues. The 880's are not
> included in MODS. That could be because MODS is intended to be "simple",
> but I suppose it could also be because it means a much more complex
> character set translate from the escaped values for CJK to the
> thousands of
> Unicode values. In any case, it would work for me because my data is
> already in Unicode so that translate is not an issue.
>
> It seems to me that there is a logical place for the alternate graphic
> fields. For example title could be expanded from:
>
> <xsd:complexType name="titleInfoType">
> <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
> <xsd:element name="title"/>
> <xsd:element name="partNumber"/>
> <xsd:element name="partName"/>
> <xsd:element name="nonSort">
> ...
>
> to:
>
> <xsd:complexType name="titleInfoType">
> <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
> <xsd:element name="title"/>
> <xsd:element name="partNumber"/>
> <xsd:element name="partName"/>
> <xsd:element name="nonSort">
> <xsd:element name="alt_graphic"/>
> ...
>
> This would finally get us (IMO) what MARC does only awkwardly, which is
> linking the alternate graphic with the field that it is parallel to. The
> question would be whether we want to include a data element that
> gives some
> indication of the language or glyph set included but my impression is that
> with Unicode most applications are not relying on this kind of data.
>
> Does anyone else see this as useful, and does anyone see any particular
> reasons NOT to include this in MODS?
>
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