MODS and RDF Descriptive Metadata Subgroup

FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS:

Version 1.0 (January 2019)

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NOTE: As of February 2019, the final deliverables for this group have been completed.

Future meetings may occur on a quarterly basis as needed for revisions and edits to the recommendations.

Questions or comments on these recommendations should be directed to the Samvera Metadata Interest Group.

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Draft Scope & Objectives

This group is interested in working together on what to do with our legacy MODS XML in a linked data / RDF world and is a subgroup of the Descriptive Metadata Working Group.

The main initial goal focuses of this group seem to be:

Discussion on MODS XML problematic mapping issues.
Creation of a shared "unofficial standard" Application Profile that MODS XML is transformed to.

Out of scope:

Support for repository solutions outside of Fedora Commons 4.

Draft Deliverables & Timeframe

The goal of this group is to have a final deliverable document by the end of 2015. This document would essentially be:

Recommendations on what mappings are possible for a particular MODS field.
An "unofficial" standard for what many institutions of this group plan to implement. This then would allow their local communities (Islandora, Samvera, etc) to then have shared code to support that standard.

Meeting Times & Communication Channels

Time: Mondays at 9 AM PST / Noon EST. Every two weeks starting 2015/07/27. Next Meeting 2017/03/20.

Call-In Info: 712-775-7035 (Access Code: 960009)

Updates and announcements will be sent to samvera-community, samvera-tech, and islandora lists.

Members

Members agree that by participating all documents produced as part of the working group will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Unported License.

Generic contact: mods2rdf [at] gmail [dot] com

Current Members

Eben English, facilitator (Boston Public Library)
saverkamp (New York Public Library)
robert.cole (University of Alberta Libraries)
rebecca_fraimow (WGBH)
ksgerrity (Amherst College)
Juliet Hardesty (Indiana University)
Rosie Le Faive (University of Prince Edward Island)
Jennifer Liss (Indiana University)
christine.mayo (Boston College)
Karen Miller (Northwestern University)
soriordan (Emory University)
Emily Porter (Emory University)
dpucci (Boston Public Library)
Johanna Radding (Amherst College)
Sara Rubinow (New York Public Library)
Chuck Schoppet (USDA/National Agricultural Library)
mw2064 (Columbia University)
jen young (Northwestern University)
Dawn Childress (UCLA)

Previous Members

Steven Anderson, facilitator (Boston Public Library)
Joshua Westgard (University of Maryland Libraries)
Kelcy Shepherd (Amherst College)
Justin Coyne (Data Curation Experts)
Nick Ruest (York University)
Bria Parker (University of Maryland)
Christina Harlow (University of Tennessee)
Steve DiDomenico (Northwestern University)
Sonoe Nakasone (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Moira Downey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Resources

Meeting Notes

Individual Institution Homework Pages

MODS elements as RDF Collaboration Documents (Detailed page: Collaboration Documents)

- 1. MODS title (two tabs)
  2. MODS name (two tabs)
  3. MODS typeOfResource
  4. MODS genre
  5. MODS originInfo (three tabs)
  6. MODS language
  7. MODS physicalDescription
  8. MODS abstract
  9. MODS tableOfContents
  10. MODS targetAudience (only BPL and UNC-CH mapped this)
  11. MODS note (two supported options likely)
  12. MODS subject
  13. MODS classification (only BPL and Columbia mapped this)
  14. MODS identifier
  15. MODS physicalLocation
  16. MODS accessCondition
  17. MODS recordInfo
  18. MODS series and collections

Initial MODS XML to RDF resources:

- UC Santa Barbara mapping information MODS and RDF: UCSB Application Profile
- UC San Diego mapping information: MODS and RDF: UCSD Application Profile
- MODSRDFV2: https://github.com/blunalucero/MODS-RDF
- Amherst College initial start of a mapping: https://gitlab.amherst.edu/acoburn/acdc-metadata-profile
- Emory University: starter RDF mapping (multiple namespaces), use cases, and open questions. Also, working list of RDF Namespaces of interest
- MODS RDF Primer: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/modsrdf-primer.html
- GitHub repository and example list for WGBH's PBCore-to-RDF mapping project: https://github.com/WGBH/pbucore/blob/add-remodeling-docs/docs/remodeling_pbcore2_to_ebucore_rdf/example_list.md

Current Institution Problem Mappings / Full MODS XML Mappings:

- Add here