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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
ph: (404) 727-6888 / email: [log in to unmask]