I'm no expert, but it seems to me you would want to include enough (and
perhaps only enough) information in the relatedItem:host element for the
user to cite the article in a bibliography.
Betsy Mckelvey
Wolfram Zieger wrote:
> Hello dear MODS experts community,
> this is my first post to this list - and I hope the topic I am going to
> raise was not discussed before. It is a bit hard to search for this in terms
> of a proper search term - so maybe I missed it.
> So instead of answering directly to this post I would also appreciate it, if
> you just point me to a already “fought through” thread within this list,
> dealing with my concerns…
>
> Ok – let’s start.
> Here at the Kunst Historisches Institut in Florence, Italy, we are about to
> do a project involving METS and MODS for cataloging rare “arty” newspapers
> from the beginning of the last century. I feel a bit responsible for this –
> so I am the one who is doing an example implementation of one newspaper in
> METS using wrapped MODS elements for article descriptions. You may think –
> ok, that’s METS stuff – but no – my question is indeed related to a special
> (wrapped) MODS issue I have.
> I will show the (reduced for here) structure below for a deeper look – but
> the problem can be easily outlined like this:
> The main idea is to have a METS:dmdSec for every single article which is
> completely done with wrapped in MODS elements (that is, because I like to
> use the fabulous METS:structMap Feature to do different approaches to the
> content). But to show the relation of those single articles to the “hosting”
> newspaper I’ve got to show the “related host” within every Article again.
> Doing it the other way around (starting with the newspaper itself and then
> coming up with every single article as related items, which sounds more
> logical at first) would not allow to link to the articles from the METS
> StructureMap, because within METS I need METS IDs, not wrapped in MODS IDs
> (at least if I want to do it in a “clean” way). This way I would only have
> the whole Newspaper itself for the METS Structure Map – so it would make no
> sense to use this structure map at all. Correct me, if I am wrong here – but
> I am pretty sure that this is, how things work (or not work in my case).
> So – having the newspaper itself as a relatedItem type="host” within every
> article descriptions leads to some kind of heavyweight XML structures. I
> wonder – and this is actually my questions – if I could shorten this by
> using <identifier> TAGs pointing to a single MODS file containing only the
> newspaper description? I wonder what to do then with the <part> elements
> showing the pages the article spans over. This mods:extent unit="pages"
> thing belongs under the related host I want to outsource – but the
> mods:extent unit="pages" TAG is different for (almost) any article. Is this
> still a valid MODS-XML format if I am doing this (just appending the <part>
> section below the <ident>referrer)?
>
> To give you a less theoretical view, here comes the MODS structure so far
> itself (and afterwards what I want to do, wondering if it’s valid this way):
> The <mods:*> syntax is because of the “wrapped within METS”-nature. And:
> I’ll do comments in “//” for the mailing list because I don’t want to
> irritate your browser/mailviewer with those html-tagged comments.
> Sorry - I can't do proper indenting from within the web pages mailing list
> interface...
>
> <mods:mods>
> // an article oft the newspaper starts here
> <mods:titleInfo>
> […]
> </mods:titleInfo>
>
> <mods:genre>open letter</mods:genre>
>
> <mods:name>
> […]
> </mods:name>
>
> <mods:subject>
> […]
> </mods:subject>
>
> <mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
>
>
> // --- The „hosting“ newspaper is coming up here ---
>
> <mods:relatedItem type="host">
> <mods:titleInfo>
> […]
> </mods:titleInfo>
>
> <mods:name>
> […]
> </mods:name>
>
> <mods:originInfo>
> […]
> </mods:originInfo>
>
> <mods:genre authority="marcgt">newspaper</mods:genre>
>
> <mods:identifier type="local" displayLabel="KHI Futurismus Projekt">
> […]
> </mods:identifier>
>
> <mods:physicalDescription>
> […]
> </mods:physicalDescription>
>
> // All the <relatedItem> parts above are fix. They don’t change per
> article. But the following details change with (almost) every article. So
> this <part> section is the (only) variable part of the relatedItem:
> <mods:part>
> […]
> </mods:part>
>
> </mods:relatedItem>
> </mods:mods>
>
>
>
>
> That was the structure so far. What I want to do now is this:
>
> <mods:mods>
> // an article oft the newspaper starts here
> <mods:titleInfo>
> […]
> </mods:titleInfo>
> […]
>
> // The „hosting“ newspaper is coming up here
> <mods:relatedItem type="host">
> <identifier type="uri">some reference to the MODS xml containing anything
> but the part info</identifier>
>
> // The following details change with (almost) every article. So this
> <part> section is the (only) variable part of the relatedItem:
> <mods:part>
> […]
> </mods:part>
>
> </mods:relatedItem>
> </mods:mods>
>
> What I want to do is to stay strictly within the METS/MODS specs. So would
> this idea fulfill those requirements? Or am I completely on a wrong track?
> Should I perhaps put the newspaper into its own METS:dmdSEC wrapped MODS
> part and refer to this? Refering from a wrapped MOD to a METS:Object (even
> when it only contains a wrapped MODS-Description)?
> I would really appreciate it, if one of you MODS-experts could enlighten me
> here!
> Thanks a lot in advance, with best regards
> Wolfram Zieger, Florence
>
> PS: I will attach the same messages in it's original format again - in case
> the indenting was messed up.
>
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