There has been some discussion about MODS relational database representations of it. So I did some web trawling and found a SQL implementation of MODS. It was produced by Patrick Yott for an application at Brown University.
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/yott/ I have placed it at http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/files/documents/124/2429/MODS-sql.txt The schema was designed for a specific database application no claim is made for its fitness for any other purpose. Bruce has observed that it does not seem complete in that it does not have a table for the MODS element 'relatedItem' which is used for relating articles to their journals and the like. So anyone planing to make us of it will probably need to do more work on it. To draw some conclusion to the discussion about SQL implementations of the MODS for the OOo bibliographic application. If it is considered to be desirable than it would be considered in a second stage of bibliographic enhancements. In the first stage we plan to concentrate on xml storage of the bibliographic data in flat files or xml database. -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
