B.G. Sloan wrote:
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> And I'm also wondering what NGC4LIB folks think of MODS and MADS??
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One would hope for a few large-scale implementations to convince
oneself of MODS' usefulness.
The MODS site has an implementation registry:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/registry.php
The only entry of a really large database is for COPAC:
"Copac is a union catalogue. It provides access to the merged online
catalogues of many major university research libraries in the UK and
Ireland plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the
National Library of Wales ..."
They extended MODS a bit to accomodate holdings data.
What can COPAC do, thanks to MODS, that a MARC-based catalog couldn't?
From visiting it, I'm at a loss to answer that question, but I may have
failed to look hard enough. (The granularity of MODS, to mention one
point, is by design inferior to MARC's.)
Some of the other projects make use of MODS' better facilities with
handling the parts<->whole relationships, an area where MARC (or rather,
MARC as it is usually implemented) is famously deficient.
B.Eversberg
Received on Tue Jun 22 2010 - 05:53:59 EDT