On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 12:02 PM, Houghton,Andrew wrote: > MODS takes too much from MARC-21 with the idea that only its > controlled lists can be used and they are hard coded into the Schema > without anyway to use alternate controlled lists, without directly > modifying the XML Schema. I don't see how the MARC list is hard-coded in the schema. The larger problem is there is NO control (e.g. at the level of validation) in reality, despite the superficial appearance that there is. > So I will reiterate the direction that I would like to see MODS move > towards: controlled lists in MODS should be URI based or use a URI for > the "controlling authority" along with the term from the controlled > list, so that other metadata communities can plug in their own > controlled > lists. So how would you propose to do that? With namespaces? With just a uri on the genre element? Bruce