Rebecca, Thanks for the response. I'm still a bit perplexed by the example in the MODS user guidelines for vesion 3.0. It shows an example: <location authority="marcorg"> <physicalLocation>DLC MicRR Microfilm 82/528 MicRR</physicalLocation> </location> In the Rutgers application, we need to record both the text name of the owning agency as well as its MARC org code. I thought it would look something like this: <location> <physicalLocation> New Jersey HIstorical Society</physicalLocation <physicalLocation authority="marcorg">NjHi</physicalLocation> </location> The two examples--the one from the web site and my own--code the authority differently. 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] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rebecca S. Guenther" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [MODS] Attributes for "location" > Location in MODS 2.0 did not have subelements and did have the authority > attribute. Because MODS 3.0 now makes a distinction between an identifier > and an electronic location, <location> now has 2 > subelements: <physicalLocation> (which is equivalent to the MODS 2.0 > location) and <url>, which was added. So <physicalLocation> takes the > attributes that location did in 2.0: authority, displayLabel, lang, > xml:lang, script and transliteration. > > See the outline: > http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-0-outline.html > > Rebecca > > On Wed, 19 May 2004, Ruth Bogan wrote: > > > What are the attributes for "location" and its subelement > > "physicalLocation" in MODS 3? I think I am confused between versions 2 > > and 3. But also, I'm looking at the first example in the user > > guidelines for v.3. It shows the attribute "authority" at the > > "location" level, but the description directly above it shows the > > attribute "authority" at the subelement level. > > > > Thanks for any help through the fog here. > > > > 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] >