Position Announcement

MODS version 3.3

MODS version 3.3 is now available. The schema is at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd 
We have been discussing the changes on the MODS list over the last 6-9
months or so and these changes are generally based on those discussions.

Changes from version 3.2 are documented below and also at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/changes-3-3.html

The Outline of elements and attributes and MARC to MODS mappings have been
updated. The MARC to MODS mapping includes not only changes arising from
the new version 3.3, but also from the last few MARC 21 updates. 

We are still working on the MARC to MODS stylesheet, the MODS to MARC
mapping, and the MODS guidelines and hope to have them available soon.

Substantive changes:
   1. Increased support for Holdings. See
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-holdings.html.
   2. Increased support for rights schemas: extensibility mechanism added
to accessCondition to allow for other more detailed rights schemas
(e.g. CDL.s).
   3. Allow typeOfResource to be empty.
   4. Add attribute 'authority' to <frequency> under <originInfo>.
   5. Add under <recordInfo>, a new element <descriptionStandard> with an
authority attribute, e.g. <descriptionStandard
authority="marcdescription">rak</descriptionStandard>.
   6. Add under hierarchicalGeographic (under
subject): extraterrestrialArea, citySection.
   7. Add Xlink attribute to physicalLocation.
   8. Add additional enumerated values for authority under <language>: ISO
639-3 and RFC4646.

Non-substantive but notable changes:
   1. For the 'xml:' namespace the
schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd" is changed to
schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/xml.xsd".
   2. For the 'xlink:' namespace the
schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/standards/xlink.xsd" is changed to
schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/standards/xlink/xlink.xsd".
   3. Attribute declarations are substantially consolidated.
   4. References to authority lists removed.

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