Re: [Refdb-users] RE: reversibility patch (cumulative reply)

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Jan 14, 2004, at 5:39 PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

>   We'll have to push the MODS people a little in order to support the
>   required attributes. The current MODS implementation is about as
>   flawed as RIS in this respect, but as it is an open standard which
>   is still evolving we have at least a chance to get this fixed.

I want to add a note here that may influence this discussion a lot.  
The LoC is currently developing a companion XML Schema for MODS called 
(least at the moment) MADS.  This schema will handle so-called 
authority-data, including, it is my hope, more detailed name parsing.  
I think this, along with the xlink attribute in MODS, could change 
things a lot, and open up a lot of power for personal reference 
management.

In other words, a MODS record could have a name defined solely like 
below and what's on the other end of that link can be in whatever XML 
form one would want:

<name xlink:href="#doej">
    <role>
       <roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm>
    </role>
</name>

Bruce