The relatedItem type "otherFormat" is defined in the MODS guidelines as:
"Information concerning another format (i.e. change in physical format) of the resource."
otherFormat is possible, although it might be debatable whether this is a change in physical format vs. an alternate representation of the content. (sound vs. text). 
The use of "constituent" in the recordedEvent object is related to the fact that, as a METS document, it is considered a package with multiple parts and the transcript is a constituent of the whole, which would be the interview. 
Since all the MODS elements are defined as subelements of relatedItem you could describe the transcript as fully as you want.

Rebecca

Rebecca Squire Guenther
Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Washington, DC 
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Shelley,
Sounds reasonable. Our approach is to say the whole thing is a METS recordedEvent, since there may not be  a single main type, but a group of things, for example a program, transcript, photos, and audio/video.
Nate
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Hi Nate,
Thanks for the examples. In looking at the list of possible values for <relatedItem> types, I wonder if "constituent" would be the correct type for a transcript of a recorded interview. If the main description in the MODS record is for the sound recording and I wanted to also describe aspects of the transcript, wouldn't I use <relatedItem type="otherFormat"> to describe the transcript? 

Thanks,
Shelley 

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> Shelley,
> 
> The Performing Arts Encyclopedia has examples in the Great 
> Conversations site, 
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/greatconversations/great-home.h
> tml
> Here's one:
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200031103/default.ht
> ml
> and the MODS link:
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200031103/mods.xml
> We don't have record metadata for the transcript, but we would 
> consider it a constituent related item of the overall recordedEvent.
> 
> Nate
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> Nate Trail
> LS/TECH/NDMSO
> Library of Congress
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Metadata Object Description Schema List 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shelley Doljack
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 6:19 PM
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> 
> If I have a digital object in my repository that is actually made up 
> of multiple resources, how should I describe it in MODS? For example, 
> I have a recording of an interview and the transcript of the 
> interview. These two things are considered one digital object in my 
> repository. I want to create a MODS record that describes aspects of 
> these two types of resources. Has anybody else encountered such a thing and how are you modeling this in MODS?
> 
> I didn't really find anything in the list archives about this 
> situation, so I apologize if this has been discussed before.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shelley
> 
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