MODS 3.6 released
May 5th, 2015
The MODS/MADS Editorial Committee and the Library of Congress are pleased to announce that a new incremental version of the MODS Schema, 3.6, is now available at:
- http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods.xsd
- http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-3-6.xsd
- http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods.xsd
- http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-6.xsd
This revision is backwards compatible to version 3.5 and therefore only includes changes that do not result in invalidating existing MODS records.
Some changes of particular note in MODS 3.6 are:
- New attributes added to the <hierarchicalGeographic> subelement of <subject>. Further information and examples can be found at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/changes-3-6-hierarchicalGeographic.html
- Four new attributes (that refer to other attributes) added to
<relatedItem> - Addition of
under - The
subelement of has been made extensible - Addition of
subelement of with type attributes
A complete list of changes can be found at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/changes-3-6.html. Revised versions of the MODS User Guidelines, the MARC to MODS mapping, and the XSLT conversion that incorporate the 3.6 changes will be available on the MODS web site soon.
Please direct any comments or questions on the MODS 3.6 Schema, or MODS/MADS developments in general, to the MODS Listserv <http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/mods.html>.
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