> From: Rebecca S. Guenther [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:34 AM
> Subject: [MODS] MADS: XML schema for authorities
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> In response to numerous requests, the Library of Congress' Network
> Development and MARC Standards Office has drafted an XML schema for an
> authority element set that may be used to provide metadata about agents
> (people, organizations), events, and terms (topics, geographics, genres,
> etc.). This Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS) was created to
> serve as a companion to the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS).
Just curious, will this list become MODS/MADS or will there be a
separate MADS list I need to subscribe to?
Thanks, Andy.
Andrew Houghton, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
http://www.oclc.org/about/
http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/houghton.htm
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