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The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office, with interested experts, has developed a schema for a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, and particularly for library applications. As an XML schema, the "Metadata Object Description Schema" (MODS) is intended to be able to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records. It includes a subset of MARC fields and uses language-based tags rather than numeric ones, in some cases regrouping elements from the MARC 21 bibliographic format. MODS is expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained by the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress with input from users.
MODS schema version 3.0 is now available. A list of changes from version 2.0 that were applied is available.
I'm interested in MODS because
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it looks like one of the best, if not the best, XML binding for bibliographic information.
What is the relationship among ModsSpec, MARC, MARC-XML, and OAI-MARC?
One can obtain MODS from the Library of Congress.
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MODS v3.0 XML Schema