Sure. Here is an excerpt from the MODS record for an issue of The New Age, containing an article written by "Alice Morning" (one of the many pseudonyms for Beatrice Hastings): <mods xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/ 2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/ standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd"> <titleInfo> <nonSort>The</nonSort> <title>New Age</title> <partNumber>Volume 7, Number 17</partNumber> </titleInfo> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm authority="marccountry" type="code">enk</placeTerm> <placeTerm type="text">London</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>The New Age Press, Ltd.</publisher> <dateIssued keyDate="yes" encoding="w3cdtf">1910-08-25</dateIssued> </originInfo> <genre authority="marcgt">periodical</genre> <relatedItem type="host"> <titleInfo> <nonSort>The</nonSort> <title>New Age</title> </titleInfo> <part> <detail type="issue"> <number>17</number> </detail> <extent unit="pages"> <start>385</start> <end>408</end> </extent> </part> </relatedItem> <relatedItem type="constituent" ID="mjp.na.07.17.9"> <titleInfo> <nonSort>The</nonSort> <title>Lady</title> </titleInfo> <name type="personal" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ns2:href="HastingsBeatrice"> <namePart>Morning, Alice</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <part> <extent unit="pages"> <start>395</start> <end>396</end> </extent> </part> </relatedItem> </mods> And here is the MADS record for Beatrice Hastings (abbreviated for clarity): <mads> <authority> <name type="personal"> <namePart type="family">Hastings</namePart> <namePart type="given">Beatrice</namePart> <namePart type="date">1879-1943</namePart> </name> </authority> <related> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Morning, Alice</namePart> </name> </related> <identifier type="LCCN">no2006002215</identifier> <identifier type="mjp">HastingsBeatrice</identifier> </mads> We use the <identifier> element in the MADS record to encode both a local identifier and, when possible, an LCCN (to support future federated searches); in the MODS record, we use the xlink:href attribute on the <name> element to link the byline to the name authority record. --C On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:38 PM, John Banning wrote: > Clifford, > Can you provide an example? > > thanks, John > > > Clifford Wulfman wrote: >> John, >> >> We've been running into this all the time as we catalog early >> twentieth-century periodicals. Our approach has been to use record >> the name as it appears in the MODS record and then use MADS >> records to capture the relationship among names. >> >> On Jun 21, 2006, at 2:00 PM, John Banning wrote: >> >>> While attempting to document the metadata for a issues of several >>> Dime >>> Novels (http://garamond.stanford.edu:9001/dp/owai/127_401_R.jpg), >>> it has >>> been revealed that the authors often go by pseudonyms. For >>> instance "A New >>> York Detective". >>> >>> How should this be captured in MODS? Does anyone have any examples? >>> Obviously this should be captured in the <name> element, but are >>> there sub >>> elements or attributes that designate pseudonyms? >>> >>> Thanks for any and all help, >>> John Banning >>> Stanford University >> >> Clifford Wulfman >> Technical Director, Modernist Journals Project >> Brown University >> [log in to unmask] Clifford Wulfman [log in to unmask]