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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
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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

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