Michael,

Another form of this question might be: can you get high quality
metadata when you transform MODS to {docbook|bibtex|etc.}? I took a
quick look at the docbook data elements and it would take some study to
find equivalencies between it and MODS. When you are working with
metadata formats that have markedly  different data elements you usually
end up with very lossy transformations. Because MODS is a fairly
detailed format, it could be that a more "forgiving" metadata format
would be preferable, such as Dublin Core using a few select element
extensions. In part it depends on how much loss you are willing to
tolerate (but you did say "high quality").

kc

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 16:04, Michael Wrighton wrote:
> I'm working on adding MODS support to the 'jabref' (jabref.sf.net)
> bibliography tool. One thing that I think would be great, would be if
> MODS could serve as a 'central format' for a large number of output
> types. The implementation of different export filters would then be just
> XSLT stylesheets (which ideally are available from some canonical place).
>
> Is anyone aware of any high-quality XSLT stylesheets which use MODS 3 as
> a source? I'd love to have bibtex, docbook, etc. as outputs -- but at
> this point am not too choosy.
>
> -michael
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