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Second try on posting this... -- Robin ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:27:11 -0500 (EST) From: Robin Wendler <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: Metadata Object Description Schema List <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [MODS] thoughts on title Minor additions... On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Priscilla Caplan wrote: > 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. Given the vociferous rejection of this approach in the DC Libraries meeting at IFLA, I'd be reluctant to adopt it. > > 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. This has the additional drawback of not necessarily being accurate. The "Das" problem in German, and so on -- sometimes it's an article in the initial position; sometimes it's not. For that reason, I'd prefer #3 below, although I think I would prefer <non-filing> or some such, as more generalizable. > > 3. Add a subelement for initial articles. E.g. > <title> > <article>The</article> > MODS test record example. > </title> > --Robin Robin Wendler ........................ work (617) 495-3724 Office for Information Systems ....... fax (617) 495-0491 Harvard University Library ........... [log in to unmask] Cambridge, MA, USA 02138 .............