On Oct 29, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> 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.
BibTeX is even worse.
Actually, I was just chatting with Norm Walsh (the primary author of
DocBook) today about seeing if he can look at updating the DocBook bib
representation to be more compatible with MODS. He said he's open to
it.
If you have any specific thoughts Karen, let me know. While I use
DocBook, I've actually never taken a close look at its bib model,
simply because it wasn't sufficient for my needs.
Bruce
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