Hello Imma, The EU Nereus Economists Online project makes use of MODS to encode conference papers, examples can be found here: http://dipot.ulb.ac.be:8080/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPref ix=didl Search for 'conferencePaper'. Data about the conference proceedings in this case are recorded in 'relatedItem' but I don't see why information about the conference itself couldn't go there. Kind regards, Joseph Greene Institutional Repository Project Manager 325 James Joyce Library University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4 353 (0)1 716 7398 [log in to unmask] http://irserver.ucd.ie/dspace/ -----Original Message----- From: Metadata Object Description Schema List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Subirats, Imma (KCEW) Sent: 01 July 2009 16:17 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MODS] Conference in MODS Dear all, I guess I should introduce myself. I am currently involved in the Open Archive @ FAO, it has as main objective the integration of the FAO's electronic publishing, digital information repository, and the bibliographic cataloguing requirements. I am trying to implement MODS in the FAO Fedora content as the core/default metadata in FOXML. I am now mapping our legacy data (ISO-2709) to MODS. It is going pretty well, but I have gotten stuck on trying to map the MODS XSD to a conference paper model. We would like to keep its own element or attribute and not in with the conference name. Is there anyone who can give me any advice about where to put 'conference location' and 'conference number'? For 'conference date' I have already looked at the possibility of using originInfo/date [log in to unmask] Thanks a lot in advance! Imma Subirats --------------------------------------------------- Knowledge and Information Management Officer KCEW, FAO of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome (Italy) Tel: +39 0657054301 E-mail: [log in to unmask]