DRSPT Catskills Institute

General Information

• Catskills Institute at Northeastern
• Catskills Institute at Brown
• Catskills Institute Collection in the BDR

MODS

• MODS Outline

Record Analysis

Summary of Files

Number of files

• 3452 files
• [X] parent objects and [Y] child objects

Types of objects

• Simple objects
  • Single image file with 1 METS and 1 MODS record

• Complex objects
  • Consist of multiple image files
  • Most common types- post cards (2 pages/2 images), books and booklets (multiple pages/multiple images), brochures (complex page structure/multiple images, digital representation attempts to mimic experience of folding and unfolding brochure to see different parts)
  • Parent/child hierarchy
    • Parent displays entire digital object, multiple images, 1 METS record and 1 MODS record (represents entire object)
    • Parent points down to child items ("Page Image") and lists child items in order based on structure of object
      e.g. Child items for book listed in page number order
      Not sure how parent/child relationship structured on back end
    • Child item consists of single image and 1 METS and 1 MODS record
    • Child points up to parent (not sure how this is done on back end)
    • Parents and children have distinct PIDs

Questions

titleInfo

• 4 records have additional titleInfo element with @displayLabel @type=“alternative"

Do the records use the nonSort field, or are initial articles included in the title field?

• nonSort used along with partNumber and subTitle elements

name

How are names handled?

• <mods:name type="[type]">
• <mods:namePart>[name]</mods:namePart>
  • Personal names in indirect order
  • Personal names include <mods:namePart type="date">[inclusive dates]</mods:namePart>
  • Where necessary personal names, also include <mods:namePart type="termsOfAddress">[term of address]</mods:namePart>
• Use role element with @roleTerm type=“text"
  • Agent and recipient used as values but are not on relators term list
  • 131 records have @authority=“marcrelator"

Are they stored in indirect order in the namePart field, or are name parts separated using the type attribute?

• namePart [name in indirect order] for personal names

typeOfResource

Does this field follow the MODS convention, or are there other values?

• Follows convention
• Values: still image, text, three-dimensional object
• Not used with every record? investigate further

genre

What controlled vocabulary, if any, is used for this field?

• AAT
• 3 records have no value for @authority

originInfo

• Place
  • 2 placeTerm elements
    • First element has @authority="marccountry," @type="code" the second element has @type="text"
    • Values are usually cities
• What date fields are used? (dateIssued? dateCreated?)
  • CopyrightDate, dateCreated, dateIssued
• Are approximate and questionable values represented with the appropriate attributes, or are there any extra characters in the date field, like "ca." or "?"? (Dates need to be stored in YYYY-MM-DD format in order for Solr to be able to index the records.)
  • Qualifiers are correct except for some inclusive dates, where instead of being expressed as two elements each with @point, it's expressed as one element with inclusive range as value

language

If the language field is used, what standard is used to control the language values?

• ISO639-2b

Are they stored as values or codes?

• Codes

physicalDescription

Is this field used? If so, what subfields are used?

• 1 extent element
  • Format: [extent]; [dimensions in cm]
• 1 digitalOrigin element
• Some records have note elements that contain cryptic alphanumeric codes
• Some records have <mods:subject> opening tags in them

abstract

How is the abstract field used?

• Generally 1 sentence description of what object is or is about, sometimes includes information about accompanying materials

tableOfContents

Is this field used?

targetAudience

Is this field used?

note

If this field is used, what note types are there?

• Some cryptic numeric and alphanumeric notes
  • Some of these are numbers that appear on original item
• Additional description for post cards
  • e.g. "Message and address on the back" and also date postmarked and information about stamp, sometimes telephone numbers
• Identifies items that are photocopies

Could this information be represented elsewhere?

• Some could be moved to <abstract>

subject

What controlled vocabulary, if any, is used for this field? What subelements, if any, are used? Most subject headings are hierarchicalGeographic with some corporate names and personal names <mods:hierarchicalGeographic />

<mods:country />

<mods:state />

<mods:city /> OR <mods:county />

Some geographic names represented with <mods:geographic />
For personal and corporate names

<name type="" />

<namePart />

classification

Is this field used?

relatedItem

Is this field used?

identifier

Is this field used?

location

Is this field used?

accessCondition

Is this field used?

part

Is this field used?

extension

Is this field used?

recordInfo

Is this field used?