MODS RDF Initiatives

MODS to BIBFRAME (Work in Progress)

This initiative is a work in progress and we will continue to update this information.

MODS 3.8 to BIBFRAME 2.0 Mapping and XSLT Coming Soon!

MODS 3.7 to BIBFRAME 2.0 Mapping and XSLT

MODS 3.6 to BIBFRAME 2.0 Mapping

MODS XML to RDF (This initiative has been superseded by the MODS to BIBFRAME initiative described above)

This initiative is a work in progress and we will update this information in 2018. MODS RDF is an RDF ontology for MODS. As MODS is an XML schema for a bibliographic element set, MODS RDF is an expression of that element set in RDF.

MODS/RDF is modeled as an OWL ontology.  It is available at:
http://www.loc.gov/mods/modsrdf/v1/modsrdf.owl

A MODS/RDF namespace document, which provides a human-accessible list of MODS/RDF classes and properties, is accessible at: http://www.loc.gov/mods/modsrdf/v1

For more detailed information see The MODS RDF Ontology Primer.

MODS RDF may be used to create born-RDF MODS, or it may be used to create an RDF description corresponding to an existing MODS XML record.  The latter is discussed in MODS RDF Primer - Part 2: MODS XML to RDF .

See Examples of MODS XML records and their corresponding RDF descriptions.

A stylesheet is available which converts existing MODS XML to MOD RDF (/XML).