Hello!
Items are often classified according to different classification systems.
According to the MODS schema, we can put several classification elements
with different @authority attributes, like this:
classification authority="lcc"
classification authority="ddc"
This is very useful! Good!
Sometimes, each classification is achieved by a human. In other cases, a
classication can be automatically generated by a software translating from a
classification formerly done in another classification system. Such a
machine generated classification is often less accurate and / or less
granular than a classification done by a trained human.
I wonder whether storing an automatically generated classification can be
considered being within the scope of what MODS intends to accomplish and if
it is the case whether we could add a new @generator attribute on the
classification element. This would be an indication that the classification
is automatically generated and it could also be used to store which software
was used to achieve this translation. As a work-around, we could of course
use the @edition attribute similarly to
classification authority="lcc"
classification authority="ddc" edition="22 machine generated from lcc by
foo-software version 1.2"
but I consider it would be more easily parsable (through XSLT etc.) to write
classification authority="lcc"
classification authority="ddc" edition="22" generator="lcc2ddc-foo-software
v.1.2"
or (maybe even better) through a URI
classification authority="lcc"
classification authority="ddc" edition="22"
generator="http://www.lcc2ddc.org/version/1.2/"
or similar.
Regards!
Saašha,
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