Unpublished,
Use of MODS for institutional repositories
(Aug 28, 2008)
Abstract
These guidelines are written primarily to facilitate the exchange of metadata of academic publications of which the full text is stored in institutional repositories. The exchange format for the bibliographical metadata is MODS. It is assumed that the metadata are parts of containers that have separate sections for bibliographical metadata and for descriptions of the files stored in the repository. Because the guidelines focus on the use of MODS in containers with detailed information about the files, file information is not included in the MODS record. An exception is the information about the files at the site of the original publisher of the publication. For these a doi or another identifier can be included in the MODS record; these identifiers can be resolved to the original files of the publisher.
