MODS
3.7 released
The MODS/MADS Editorial Committee and the Library of
Congress are pleased to announce that a new incremental version of
the MODS Schema, 3.7, is now available at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods.xsd (and also available at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-3-7.xsd,
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods.xsd, and
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-7.xsd)
This revision is backwards compatible to version
3.6 and therefore only includes changes that do not result in
invalidating existing MODS records. Some changes of particular
note in MODS 3.7 are:
1) Provide the capability to specify an authority for
the publisher (addition of authority, authorityURI and valueURI
to the publisher subelement)
2) Remove controlled-list restriction from
typeOfResource so that any value may be supplied
3) Addition of @calendar to <dateIssued> <dateCreated>
<dateModified> <CopyrightDate> and <dateOther>
subelements
4) Support for alternative names
The complete list of changes may be found at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/changes-3-7.html
Updates to the MODS User Guidelines, the MARC to MODS mapping, and
the XSLT conversion that incorporate 3.7 changes will be available
on the MODS Web site soon.
Please direct any comments or questions on the MODS 3.7 schema to
the MODS Listserv.
Regards,
Melanie Wacker
on behalf of the MODS/MADS
Editorial Committee
