Nick Bart - 2012-12-19

It would be nice if biblatex2xml could convert biblatex’s @video entry type to MODS.

@video is recognized by biblatex (as an alias for @misc, as is @movie and a few others), but @video is used in a more specific way by biblatex-apa and biblatex-chicago.

To cover the use in biblatex-apa and biblatex-chicago I’d suggest using

  • <genre authority="marcgt">videorecording</genre>
    or <genre authority="marcgt">motion picture</genre>
    (citeproc-hs presently recognizes the latter, but the first is closer to @video)
  • <typeOfResource>moving image</typeOfResource>

(see http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/typeofresource.html and http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/marcgt.html)

and I’d suggest converting

  • publisher or howpublished fields to MODS <publisher>,

  • director fields to MODS
    <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">Director</roleTerm>

  • producer fields to MODS
    <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">Producer</roleTerm>

  • editor/editora/editorb/editorc fields – in case editortype/editoratype/editorbtype/editorctype contain either “director”, “producer”, “conductor”, or “none” – to, respectively,

    • <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">Director</roleTerm>
    • <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">Producer</roleTerm>
    • <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">Conductor</roleTerm>
    • <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">Performer</roleTerm>
 

Last edit: Nick Bart 2012-12-19