MODS Meets Manakin: Innovations in the Texas Digital Library’s Thesis

and Dissertation Collection

Brian Surratt06/09/06ETD 2006

Québec City, Canadahttp://besurratt.com/documents/

ETD2006.ppt

Agenda

• The Texas Digital Library• Characteristics of MARC and Dublin

Core• TDL’s MODS Application Profile• Outstanding issues for MODS metadata• Manakin and MODS• Conclusion

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The Texas Digital Library• Consortium of five ARL university libraries in

Texas– U. of Texas, Texas A&M, U. of Houston, Texas Tech,

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• Sharing technology, knowledge, and resources• Developing common standards• Investigating and implementing new

technologies and scholarly communication models

The Metadata Working Group

• Chair: Brian Surratt• Members: Alisha Little, Anne Mitchell,

Jason Thomale, Mary Dabney Wilson, Melinda Flannery

• Charge: Develop standards-based metadata schemas for TDL content.

• Plan of work: First project is to develop a descriptive metadata standard for TDL’s first collection.

MARC

• Syntax• Content and formatting• OPACs vs. DLs• Inconsistent application of major fields

– Genre– Discipline– Thesis advisor– Subjects

Dublin Core

• Not enough elements• Too broadly defined• No specified syntax• Lack of substructure

– Describing component parts– Relating elements to component parts– Relating descriptive elements to each other– Attributes and qualifiers to individual elements

Dublin Core (2)

Dublin Core (3)Who is doing what here?:

dc.contributor=Smith, John

dc.contributor=Brown, Jane

dc.contributor=Jones, Bob

dc.contributor.role=Thesis advisor

dc.contributor.role=Author

dc.contributor.role=Committee member

Dublin Core (4)What about this?

<contributor role="chair">Joseph W. Roggenbuck</contributor>

Better, but not really Dublin Core.

MODS profile for ETDs• Why MODS?

– XML based, web friendly, transportable, processible, configurable, sufficiently descriptive without being too complex, extensible

– Benefits over MARC: MARC isn’t XML based and can’t easily be output from web forms. Requires special cataloging knowledge and systems to implement

– Benefits over Dublin Core: DC doesn’t have sufficient specificity. DC doesn’t specify a syntax and is inconsistently applied. DC isn’t extensible

MODS: Titles and names<mods:titleInfo>

<mods:title>Critical processes and performance measures for patient safety systems in healthcare institutions </mods:title>

</mods:titleInfo>

<mods:name type="personal">

<mods:namePart type="given">Bryan R.</mods:namePart>

<mods:namePart type="family">Cole</mods:namePart> <mods:role>

<mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">Thesis

advisor</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role>

</mods:name>

MODS: Dates<mods:originInfo>

<mods:dateCreated encoding="iso8601">

200408

</mods:dateCreated>

<mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8601">

200412

</mods:dateIssued>

</mods:originInfo>

MODS: Type, genre, physical description

<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>

<mods:genre authority="marcgt">Theses</mods:genre>

<mods:physicalDescription><mods:form authority="marcform">electronic</mods:form><mods:internetMediaType>application/pdf</mods:internetMediaType><mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin>

</mods:physicalDescription>

MODS: Other mandatory fields

• Language• Abstract• Subjects• Information about the record

MODS: Extensions/ETD-MS<mods:name type="corporate" authority="lcnaf">

<mods:namePart>Texas A &amp; M University

</mods:namePart>

<mods:namePart>Philosophy

</mods:namePart>

<mods:role>

<mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">Degree

grantor</mods:roleTerm>

</mods:role>

</mods:name>

<mods:extension>

<etd:degree>

<etd:name>Doctor of Philosophy

</etd:name>

<etd:level>Doctoral</etd:level>

<etd:discipline>Educational Administration</etd:discipline>

</etd:degree>

</mods:extension>

MODS: Extensions/ETD-MS

Outstanding issues

• Publisher• Rights• Record

information• Compound

objects• Native metadata

in MODS

Manakin and MODS

• Manakin: custom user interface for DSpace– Distinct look and feel for each community– Separate business from stylistic design– Interface-level component architecture– Internationalization and localization of content– Alternative interface to existing JSP interface

TxSpace

Texas Digital Library

Conclusion