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This announcement is being sent to multiple lists; please excuse any duplication.

The DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group is happy to announce the availability of two new resources aimed at helping Aquifer participants prepare metadata for aggregation.

1) An FAQ for institutions implementing the DLF/Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS Records.

<http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/x/MYAH>

The FAQ is designed to supplement the DLF/Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS Records <http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/download/attachments/28330/DLFM
ODS_ImplementationGuidelines_Version1.pdf
> and MODS Guidelines Levels of Adoption <http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence//x/q24>, to help institutions understand the rationale behind the metadata guidelines designed by the Aquifer project.  The Aquifer Metadata Working Group plans to add to this FAQ over time.  Please do not hesitate to contact any Working Group member <http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/x/Sm8> with suggestions.

2) The DLF Aquifer MARCXML to MODS XSL Stylesheet, version 2007-08-10.

<http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence//x/K4AQ>

The Aquifer stylesheet for record conversion is based on the MARCXML to MODS stylesheet for MODS version 3.2 made available by the Library of Congress on the MODS website  <http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/MARC21slim2MODS.xsl>, and is based on a version incorporating LC's revisions up to number 1.15.  We are grateful to the Library of Congress for providing and maintaining this document and for their help in preparing our version.

Our goal in making this version available is to make it easier for institutions having digital content they wish to contribute metadata to the DLF Aquifer project, American Social History Online.  For institutions with MARC records, the stylesheet may help to convert their metadata to MODS records in a way that we believe better meets the requirements and recommendations of the Aquifer Guidelines.  Our changes address the needs of the Aquifer project, specifically the requirements and recommendations of the Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS Records, but may be useful to consider for other aggregators who are mapping MARCXML to MODS or other formats for OAI sharing.

More information about these changes can be found in an Introduction <http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence//x/MYAQ>, comments on specific changes at the beginning of the stylesheet, and the "Mapping" "MARC to MODS" section of the Aquifer FAQ page mentioned above.  The latter document will be updated as new questions are answered.

Please note that content standards and practices using MARC vary between institutions, and sometimes within an institution over time or between types of collections or materials.  No one  stylesheet can deal appropriately with all variations in the use of MARC.  The mapping decisions underlying the changes we have made, as well as the decisions underlying the LC stylesheet (documented at <http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-mapping.html>), should be studied by an institution and tested on sample records to determine whether the results are as desired or whether the institution needs to modify the stylesheet for a particular collection of records.

Questions about the stylesheet may be addressed to any Metadata Working Group member; addresses can be found in the Roster of members <http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/x/Sm8>.   The members of the MARC to MODS subcommittee were Laura Akerman, John Chapman and Tracy Meehleib.

Laura
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Laura Akerman, Technology and Metadata Librarian
Robert W. Woodruff Library, Room 128
Emory University
Atlanta, Ga. 30322
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