Hello,

Is there a loose of information in the MODS schema about the <title> element ?

If you have a title like this (in ISBD format ) :

"title : subtitle"

In (UNI)MARC format there is a subfield a and subfield b to distinguish title parts.

But in MODS, the value is the concatenation of theses subfields.

Why not using a subtitle element :

<titleInfo>
    <title>Once upon a time</title>
    <subtitle>there was a familly called Pot</subtitle>
    <subtitle>[the begining of an english lesson that i learned when i was 13 :-)]</subtitle>
</titleInfo>

Yves

Concrete example with the MODS Example of a Conference Publication : http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/instances/mods97129132.xml

MARC21 :

245 00 a Papers from the First International Workshop on Plasma-Based Ion Implantation : b 4-6 August 1993, University of Wisconsin--Madison, Madison, Wisconsin / c sponsored by Applied Science and Technology (ASTeX), Inc. ... [et al.] ; editors for the workshop, John R. Conrad, Kumar Sridharan.

MARCXML :
<datafield tag="245" ind1="0" ind2="0">

<subfield code="a">Papers from the First International Workshop on Plasma-Based Ion Implantation :</subfield>

<subfield code="b">4-6 August 1993, University of Wisconsin--Madison, Madison, Wisconsin /</subfield>

<subfield code="c">sponsored by Applied Science and Technology (ASTeX), Inc. ... [et al.] ; editors for the workshop, John R. Conrad, Kumar Sridharan.</subfield>

</datafield>

MODS :

<title>Papers from the First International Workshop on Plasma-Based Ion Implantation : 4-6 August 1993, University of Wisconsin--Madison, Madison, Wisconsin /</title>

</titleInfo>

MODS change:

<title>Papers from the First International Workshop on Plasma-Based Ion Implantation</title>
<subtitle>4-6 August 1993, University of Wisconsin--Madison, Madison, Wisconsin</subtitle>

</titleInfo>

Yves Pratter
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