Greetings,

I am currently serving on the Music Library Association's (MLA) Metadata Standards Working Group, whose charge is to "examine the descriptive, structural, and administrative metadata elements currently being used to control music materials, including, but not limited to, those elements employed in the projects identified by the International Music Metadata Projects Working Group; formulate a schema of required elements for music metadata applications, along with recommendations for their standardized use; develop "best practices" with regard to the use of, extension of, and/or transmission of data between the new schema and the other major metadata schemas." 

We have several subgroups looking at various metadata schemes; mine is MODS. I'm on quite a learning curve, so have been reading about MODS and metadata in general. I have noted that some of you appear to have experience applying MODS to music materials, and I am writing to ask if you could share your thoughts and experiences with me. What have you found to be successful and/or problematic when applying MODS to music materials? Please share with the list or me directly as you wish. Our group's efforts are focused on scores and sound recordings, which of course can come in other formats, such as computer files, photographs, examples in books, etc.

Thank you very much for your time and help.

Renee McBride

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Renée McBride
Humanities & Music Cataloger, UCLA
phone : (310) 206-5853
fax: (310) 206-4974
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