Hi,
I need some advise on creating MODS records for our institutional
repository. In particular I wonder how best to express the different
access restrictions on digital files when a record contains more than one
full-text file. E.g. what we do now is write something like:
location
url
Patrick-
There are some things in MODS that are close to addressing this problem, for
example you could create a part wrapper around each file, but my reading of the
docs says that may not be the intended use of the part element (depending in
part on whether the files represent different
I would echo that reference to METS. It does allow you to carry the descriptive
metadata in MODS, but also to explicitly associate access restrictions with
specific files. We've had success with recording information about individual
files in a relational database, along with pointers to
Here at UW Madison, we take a similar approach: descriptive metadata
for each thing in a MODS document, administrative metadata for the
thing (such a restrictions, licenses, etc.) in a PREMIS document, then
link everything together in a METS package.
-- Scott
On 09/06/2013 06:15 AM, Esmé
