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I agree with the rationale you used in developing MODS and appreciate the minimalist approach. I do not think it is necessary to separately identify subtitle. Mary Alice At 10:56 AM 12/2/2002 -0500, you wrote: >The only reason why we did not include <subtitle> as a separate element in >MODS is that we were trying to keep the number of elements at a minimum to >make for easy metadata creation and generally a less complex format than >MARC. MODS is not supposed to have an equivalence for every MARC element. >In the case of title/subtitle, we thought it could just be concatenated >without separately identifying subtitle. > >Do others see a rationale for separately identifying subtitle (other than >the fact that MARC does)? > >Rebecca Mary Alice Ball BiblioVault Manager University of Chicago Press 1427 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-2954 [log in to unmask] Phone: 773-702-4997 Fax: 773-753-3383