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MODS RDF is an RDF ontology for MODS. As MODS is an XML schema for a bibliographic element set, MODS RDF is an expression of that element set in RDF.
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recordInfo or AdminMetadata #20

Closed melanieWacker closed 9 years ago

melanieWacker commented 10 years ago

References: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/modsrdf/primer.html#recordInfo http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/modsrdf/primer.html#external http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/modsrdf-primer-2.html#recordInfo From the MODS RDF Primer: "MODS is represented by a property whose range is the class AdminMetadata in the RecordInfo antology." This ontology basically includes current MODS XML elements, such as descriptionStandard, recordContentSource, and recordIdentifier. Example:

aacr NSDP 020830 20100408071739.0 12912383 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.4 using MARC21slim2MODS3-4.xsl (Revision 1.76 2012/02/01)

Questions: 1) Do we agree with this approach going forward? 2) In an environment moving away from the "record concept" -- do all these elements need to be brought over?

raydAtLC commented 9 years ago

Melanie said ‘In an environment moving away from the "record concept" ‘

But I’m not sure I see any such movement in the work we’re doing, it’s still: what is the RDF description corresponding to a MODS record. Call it an RDF description if you don’t like “record” but it’s still a record. So in many cases, a MARC record becomes a MODS record which becomes a MODS RDF description. In those cases I think there should be at least the option to retain in the RDF whatever provenance and record metadata information has been carried over from the MARC record.

rguenther52 commented 9 years ago

It is important to track provenance of the metadata. FYI: BIBFRAME adopted properties for administrative metadata (or whatever you want to call it-- metadata about the description) largely based on MODS recordInfo.

melanieWacker commented 9 years ago

See discussion from Oct. Working Group call: https://github.com/blunalucero/MODS-RDF/wiki/MODS-RDF-Working-Group-Call-10.03.14