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Hello Saašha!

Thank you very much for your examples, this is a tremendous help! I think your email has helped us solve the problem. 

Rebecca, thanks to you for your help and advice as well.

Thanks again,
Cristina 

-----Original Message-----
From: Metadata Object Description Schema List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Saašha Metsärantala
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:50 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MODS] MODS Lat/Long coordinates?

Hello Cristina!

I am not used to the problem you described, but I send you a valid (but rather incomplete) MODS file where coordinates are expressed in three different ways. This is probably not THE answer to the problem, but my hope is that is may be useful as a hint.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<mods version="3.4" 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-3-4.xsd">

    <subject>

        <cartographics>

            <coordinates>6 00 S, 71 30 E</coordinates>

        </cartographics>

    </subject>

    <subject>

        <cartographics
authorityURI="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#lat">

            <coordinates>54.23</coordinates>

        </cartographics>

        <cartographics
authorityURI="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#long">

            <coordinates>-4.57</coordinates>

        </cartographics>

    </subject>

    <extension xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#">

        <geo:lat>54.23</geo:lat>

        <geo:long>-4.57</geo:long>

    </extension>

</mods>

I hope it helps!

Regards!

Saašha,