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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Ruth Bogan wrote: > Good afternoon, Everyone-- > > Rutgers is involved in building the New Jersey Digital Highway > (http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/), and we have decided to throw our > lot in with MODS for descriptive metadata in our Fedora repository.I > have a couple of questions: > > 1. For administrative reasons, we have chosen to designate a single > primary title for each of our resources, and allow multiple alternate > titles. That means that "title" can appear once, and "title" with > type="alternative" can repeat. Apparently, there's a functional > problem caused locally by not having a value for type with the > nonrepeating "title" element in our configuration. Since the use of > type is optional anyway, is there any reason not to have a type="main" > or some similar term? The values for type are enumerated in the schema and "main" is not one of them. We did discuss this early on whether we wanted to include a type="main" but decided not to. One would assume that if there is no type that it is a main title and we didn't want to force people to designate the main title. I am not clear what sort of functional problem you would have by applying it this way, i.e. all but the main title will have type="alternative", since that is how the schema is written. > 2. It looks as if the relatedItem structure can be used to designate > that a resource is a part of a collection or collections. It appears > that type="host" might be the right choice for this. Is that how you > see this? I'm asking because the term "host" makes us a bit uneasy. Yes, it certainly can. If you want to reference the collection you would use relatedItem with type="host". We do this at LC in our MODS record for individual Web pages in a Minerva event-based collection. Example is: http://www.loc.gov/minerva/collect/elec2002/ulmer-record.html (the nice display from an XSLT stylesheet of this MODS record): http://www.loc.gov/minerva/collect/elec2002/ulmer-record.xml You will see that we have a relatedItem type="host" and a title and link to the main collection. In the HTML display we didn't use host but collection title. Rebecca ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ Rebecca S. Guenther ^^ ^^ Senior Networking and Standards Specialist ^^ ^^ Network Development and MARC Standards Office ^^ ^^ 1st and Independence Ave. SE ^^ ^^ Library of Congress ^^ ^^ Washington, DC 20540-4402 ^^ ^^ (202) 707-5092 (voice) (202) 707-0115 (FAX) ^^ ^^ [log in to unmask] ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Sorry if these are questions that have been asked already. I'm a > fairly new member of the list. > > Looking forward to your insights. > > Ruth > > Ruth A. Bogan > Head, Database and Catalog Portal Management Section > Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey > 47 Davidson Road, Busch Campus > Piscataway, NJ 08854-5603 > Ph.: 732-445-5906 > Fax: 732-445-5888 > Email: [log in to unmask] > >