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Two thoughts about <mods:title>. First, it seems there should be some standard way of dealing with initial (non-filing) articles. I can think of several alternatives: 1.a. Make a content rule: "Omit initial articles." 1.b. Add a subelement <displayForm> as for <mods:name>, for the full displaying form of title. 2.a. Make a content rule: "Include initial articles." 2.b. Add an attribute for the language of the title, so that applications that care can strip initial articles when they have to. 3. Add a subelement for initial articles. E.g. <title> <article>The</article> MODS test record example. </title> I mildly prefer 2 but it has the minor problem that the initial article would not be available when converting from a 246 field. Second, there are authority records for uniform titles, but there is no "authority" attribute on <mods:title>. Although there is (to my knowledge) only one authority for them, it seems to me you might still want to provide authority="naf" to indicate the uniform title was under authority and not made up. Also any other changes to MODS made for authority links for names and subjects would be appropriate here. p