Hello Ann, I'm curious to know why you used MODS with this collection yet plan to switch to DC with METS in another collection? I thought that MODS had been approved by the METS editorial board as a descriptive metadata extension schema. Thanks! Allene Hayes Digital Projects Coordinator Cataloging Directorate Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540-4371 [log in to unmask] 202-707-1499 voice 202-707-7161 fax >>> [log in to unmask] 4/1/2004 8:29:40 AM >>> Renee, We have converted our collection of African-American sheet music to MODS using the MARC to MODS conversion tool and were very pleased with the results. I did some preliminary tweaking to the MARC records to eliminate some bizarre local practices that would have mucked up the conversion. This collection is used by music, theater, and history scholars so the metadata will be used in a variety of ways. We haven't made this available to the general public yet because we're working on some larger issues, but you can see a sample record at: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/repository/repoman.php?verb=render&id=107168580393750 Obviously, in sheet music, we're generally not dealing with some of the issues that crop up in classical music, such as uniform titles, but we were very pleased with the way MODS was able to handle information such as "first line of text" and "first line of chorus", a method our users often rely on for identification. We have several additional sheet music collections in the pipeline to convert. We also plan to include DC records in the METS records. Ann Caldwell ---------------------------------------------------------------- E. Ann Caldwell (401) 863-3716 Metadata Specialist (401) 863-1272 (fax) Rockefeller Library [log in to unmask] Brown University Providence, RI 02912