MODS Implementation Registry

The MODS Implementation Registry contains descriptions of MODS projects planned, in progress, and fully implemented. To have your projects added to the registry, please submit the requisite information directly to the Network Development and MARC Standards Office via ndmso@loc.gov.

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There are currently 34 projects in the registry.

Project Name	Project Details
Academic Commons	Institution:	Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship
	Description:	Academic Commons is Columbia University's digital repository where current faculty, students, and staff can deposit the results of their scholarly work and research. The repository uses MODS for descriptive metadata. A metadata tool, Hypatia, was developed in-house for MODS record creation and ingest. Academic Commons migrated from DSpace to Fedora in fall 2009.
	Web site:	http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/
	Web site notes:	Academic Commons Web site is built on Blacklight, an open-source Ruby on Rails application designed to offer a next-generation user experience, including faceted searching.
	Dates:	The Web site went live in April, 2011. Iterative improvements to the site are ongoing, with major releases every six months.
	Online documentation:	http://support.academiccommons.columbia.edu/
	Documentation notes:	Academic Commons FAQ
	Tools:	Hypatia, MODS cataloging and Fedora ingest tool, developed by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services staff. Allows staff to define granular MODS templates for data input that can be associated with specific projects and collections.
	Version:	MODS 3.4
	Contact Person:	Robert Hilliker
	Email address:	rhilliker@columbia.edu
	Additional contact information:	Robert Hilliker, Ph. D., MLIS Digital Repository Manager, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship Columbia University, 201 Lehman Library, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027 Tel.: 212-851-7339
American Memory and Global Gateway Legacy Conversion Project	Institution:	Library of Congress
	Description:	This project will map existing American Memory and Global Gateway descriptive data created in formats other than MARC (approximately 200,000 records) to a standard schema. MODS will be used as an expression schema, and MODS records will be output for record sharing/OAI harvesting once the newly normalized data in the American Memory & Global Gateway application has been re-engineered.
	Web site:
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	8/2004-10/2006
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:	No external documentation available at this point
	Tools:	Microsoft Access, Perl, Oracle
	Version:
	Contact Person:	Timberly Wuester
	Email address:	twue@loc.gov
	Additional contact information:
Australian National Bibliographic Database Metadata Project	Institution:	National Library of Australia
	Description:	Used for the contribution of metadata records to the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD), which is accessible through the Kinetica service. The project is based on the collection of metadata records through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and other means (primarily Batch*Link). MODS is used to transform Dublin Core (DC) records, enabling more effective contribution of records, particularly contribution of metadata for digital content. Records are converted to MARC via MODS.
	Web site:	http://www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	2003-2004, project is in production
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	n/a
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Roxanne Missingham
	Email address:	rmissingham@nla.gov.au
	Additional contact information:
Bibutils	Institution:	Ludwig Institute For Cancer Research
	Description:	Bibutils interconverts between a variety of different bibliography formats including BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, ISI-Web-of-Science, and Medline using the MODS format as an intermediate. This allows for easy conversion into and out of MODS as well as other formats.
	Web site:	http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	Programs and source code are currently available
	Online documentation:	http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	n/a
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Chris Putnam
	Email address:	cdputnam@scripps.edu
	Additional contact information:
Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University	Institution:	Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University
	Description:	The Center for Digital Initiatives is using MODS within METS for the descriptive metadata in over thirty collections of digitized material including sheet music, pamphlets, manuscript material, images, and periodicals
	Web site:	http://dl.lib.brown.edu
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	2003-
	Online documentation:	http://dl.lib.brown.edu/documentation/
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	XML text editors (NoteTab Pro, Oxygen), MARC4J, EAD2MODS (stylesheet to convert EAD components to MODS records)
	Version:	MODS 3.2
	Contact Person:	Ann Caldwell, Patrick Yott
	Email address:	E_Caldwell@brown.edu
	Additional contact information:	Patrick_Yott@brown.edu
Chopin Early Editions	Institution:	University of Chicago Library
	Description:	MODS is used within METS for the descriptive metadata in a collection of digitized piano scores.
	Web site:	http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	In production
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	A tool was developed in-house to extract records from a Dynix Horizon catalog and map them into MODS.
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Tod Olson
	Email address:	tod@uchicago.edu
	Additional contact information:
Classics Slide Collection	Institution:	Kelvin Smith Library and Department of Classics Case Western Reserve University
	Description:	The collection comprises more than 3000 digitized slides, primarily of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and landscapes. A single MODS record documents descriptive metadata for each image using a customized template (see documentation below). The archival TIF and derivative JPEG2000 images, MODS records, and OAI-compliant Dublin Core records (using a MODS-to-DC-stylesheet) will be ingested into our digital repository, Digital Case.
	Web site:
	Web site notes:	Forthcoming
	Dates:	Expected release date: 28 April 2006
	Online documentation:	http://library.case.edu/ksl/techserv/metadata/classicsmods.html
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	XML text editors (NoteTab Pro, XML Spy, and Oxygen), Fedora 2.0 with Lucene search engine
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Linda Cantara
	Email address:	linda.cantara@case.edu
	Additional contact information:
Columbia University Digital Library Repository	Institution:	Columbia University Libraries
	Description:	The Libraries are using Aquifer MODS -- to the extent feasible -- for content loaded into our Fedora-based asset management & preservation repository. We're in the process of remediating and ingesting legacy metadata and content for projects done over the last 15 years.
	Web site:	http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/
	Web site notes:	NB: Asset and preservation repository not available for public access. A future "public digital collection viewer" will draw on the same content and will be available externally. Content represented in the repository includes projects linked at above Web site.
	Dates:	Legacy ingest to be completed by mid-2011. Prospectively MODS will be created for most new content and ingested in conjunction with new digital project implementation.
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	XML, XSLT, FileMaker Pro, Excel
	Version:	MODS version 3.3
	Contact Person:	Robbie Blitz, Digital Projects Librarian
	Email address:	rlb179@columbia.edu
	Additional contact information:	Stephen Davis, Director, Libraries Digital Program
Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions in Omeka	Institution:	Columbia University Libraries
	Description:	Libraries Digital Program Division staff developed a MODS plug-in for Omeka, an open source web-publishing platform for exhibitions. The plug-in enables curatorial staff to use MODS, in addition to Omeka's Dublin Core fields, to describe items. This item level metadata appears in the online exhibit and can also be exported and integrated into external applications using MODS.
	Web site:	http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/exhibitions/index.html
	Web site notes:	Exhibits created after May 2010 are MODS compliant.
	Dates:	Implemented in May 2010.
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	MODS plug-in for Omeka created by a developer in the Libraries Digital Program Division.
	Version:	MODS version 3.3
	Contact Person:	Robbie Blitz, Digital Projects Librarian
	Email address:	rlb179@columbia.edu
	Additional contact information:
Copac : UK & Irish Research Library Catalogue	Institution:	Mimas, University of Manchester, UK
	Description:	Description: Copac is a union catalogue, exposing rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of many major UK and Irish National, Academic, and Specialist Research Libraries, including the British Library. The Copac database is in MODS format; we de-duplicate incoming data and create consolidated MODS records.
	Web site:	http://copac.ac.uk/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	2005 - Present
	Online documentation:	http://copac.ac.uk/schemas/holdings/
	Documentation notes:	We developed a Local Holdings extension to deal with holdings information in consolidated records that represent materials held in multiple institutions. Details at the above location.
	Tools:	In-house C++ software development in a UNIX environment. Conversion uses LC MARC to MODS mapping with local extensions.
	Version:	MODS 3.2
	Contact Person:	Ashley Sanders; Copac service
	Email address:	a.sanders@manchester.ac.uk
	Additional contact information:	copac@mimas.ac.uk
Credo	Institution:	W. E. B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
	Description:	Credo is an online repository containing the digital collections held by the UMass Amherst Libraries Department of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). We use MODS within METS for descriptive metadata of the material in our collections that go into Credo.
	Web site:	http://credo.library.umass.edu
	Web site notes:	The basic goal in designing Credo is to provide simple and intuitive access to digital collections within a repository architecture that is both robust and flexible and that adheres to open standards. The flexibility of the underlying Fedora Commons Repository software (maintained by the DuraSpace Organization) allows us to continue to develop Credo and to add additional features as we explore the best ways to deliver digital content to the public.
	Dates:	The site went live in June of 2011. Improvements are ongoing.
	Online documentation:	http://credo.library.umass.edu/about.html
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	XML text editor (oXygen), Python scripts for metadata manipulation, Fedora Commons for display and storage.
	Version:	MODS 3.3 and 3.4
	Contact Person:	Jeremy Smith
	Email address:	jlsmith@library.umass.edu
	Additional contact information:	askanarc@library.umass.edu
Description of Buildings, Historical Center of Corfu (Greece)	Institution:	Technical Chamber of Greece - Department of Corfu
	Description:	MODS records provide access to 30 historical buildings of Historical Center of Corfu (Greece). Descriptions include: name of building, name of architect or engineer, building address, date of creation, number of block, coordinates, main usage of building, number of floors, typological data, construction materials, color of building, comprehensive deterioration, status of conservation, owner, sources of the history of the building, general notes, photographs, drawings, maps etc. Stylesheets are used for HTML presentation purposes.
	Web site:	http://deana.tee.gr/tee/corfu/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	2006
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:	Coming soon
	Tools:	XML Spy, ZOOM Indexer
	Version:	MODS 3.2
	Contact Person:	Michael Agathos
	Email address:	michael_agathos@central.tee.gr
	Additional contact information:	Ionian University - Department of Archival and Library Sciences
DLF Aquifer Initiative	Institution:	Digital Library Federation
	Description:	The primary goal of the Aquifer Initiative is to enable distributed content to be used effectively by libraries and scholars for teaching, learning, and research. The provision of rich, shareable metadata for this distributed content is an important step towards this goal. DLF Aquifer project work is distributed amongst four working groups, collections, metadata, technology and services. The Metadata Working Group of the DLF Aquifer Initiative has developed a set of implementation guidelines for MODS specifically for use in describing digital cultural heritage and humanities-based scholarly resources that are to be shared within the Aquifer Initiative and wider. They are intended to provide a best practice to build to for rich, shareable metadata that is coherent and consistent.
	Web site:	http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/
	Web site notes:	Additional documentation at http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/AquiferMetadata_ProposedActivities_Final.pdf
	Dates:	2005-
	Online documentation:	http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/display/DLFAquifer/DLF+Aquifer+Public+Metadata+Documents
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:
	Version:
	Contact Person:	Jenn Riley
	Email address:	jenlrile@indiana.edu
	Additional contact information:
Empweb	Institution:	Kalio.Net
	Description:	Empweb is an open and extensible library circulation system. The first version was implemented at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso. Versions 1.6 and 2.0 will be available in the near future. We plan to release Empweb as a free/open souce product (still undecided on the license). We chose MODS as the bibliographic description format in which the "object database web service" returns data. We implemented a custom extension to represent holdings data, but now that the MODS initiative is considering formal representation of holdings data, we will probably use that.
	Web site:	http://kalio.net/home/proyectos/empweb/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	2003 -
	Online documentation:	http://kalio.net/home/proyectos/empweb/empweb_bahia_200509.pdf
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	Java, JSP, CDS/Isis libraries for some (optional) functionality
	Version:
	Contact Person:	Barzilai Spinak or Ciro Mondueri
	Email address:	barspi@kalio.net or ciro@kalio.net
	Additional contact information:
Federated search of AMICUS and MIKAN	Institution:	Library and Archives Canada
	Description:	Bibliographic records from AMICUS and archival description records from MIKAN will be searchable in one interface using Verity forsearching cached XML descriptions. The XML cache was based on the MODS schema with extensions.
	Web site:
	Web site notes:	Coming soon
	Dates:	MODS mapping, data conversion and testing, 2005. Public access to the new interface is planned for November 2005.
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	Verity
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Bill Leonard
	Email address:	bill.leonard@lac-bac.gc.ca
	Additional contact information:
Finding Aid Discovery	Institution:	University of Chicago Library
	Description:	Metadata describing electronic finding aids for archival and manuscript collections are extracted from the online catalog as MODS records and made available for distribution through OAI-PMH.
	Web site:	http://oai.lib.uchicago.edu:8180/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=mods&set=ead
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	First quarter 2005
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	A tool was developed in-house to extract records from a Dynix Horizon catalog and map them into MODS.
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Charles Blair
	Email address:	chas@uchicago.edu
	Additional contact information:
Gateway to Contemporary Music Resources in France	Institution:	IRCAM - Centre Pompidou and CDMC
	Description:	The project harvests metadata in MODS from a variety of sources which are partners to the project and which hold pertinent resources, provides searching facilities into the harvested metadata and access to online contents if attached to the original metadata. Contents are accessible in up to three different "resolutions" depending on their type, the associated rights and the place from which the Gateway is queried (typically for sound recordings: if queried from within the network of a partner, access to full audio, high sampling rate; if queried from outside, access to an excerpt in MP3). This has been implemented through a specific semantics we attached to . A couple of extensions were added to in order to allow for the inclusion of events and people in the metadata, in addition to regular "documents".
	Web site:	http://www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
	Web site notes:	IRCAM - Centre Pompidou (www.ircam.fr) for project design and implementation, CDMC (www.cdmc.asso.fr) for project administration. Content is accessible in up to three different "resolutions" depending on their type, the associated rights and the place from which the Gateway is queried (typically for sound recordings: if queried from within the network of a partner, access to full audio, high sampling rate; if queried from outside, access to an excerpt in MP3). This has been implemented through a specific semantics we attached to . A couple of extensions were added to in order to allow for the inclusion of events and people in the metadata, in addition to regular "documents".
	Dates:	Dates of development of first public version: 2/2007-12/2007 (further developments have occurred since).
	Online documentation:	http://www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/doc
	Documentation notes:	Documentation in French
	Tools:	It is based on (a locally doctored version of) PKP (and thus on PHP, MySQL, Apache).
	Version:
	Contact Person:	Michael Fingerhut
	Email address:	mf@ircam.fr
	Additional contact information:
Harry A. Blackmun Papers	Institution:	Library of Congress
	Description:	Uses a single MODS record (as extension to a METS document) to describe selected items from archival papers.
	Web site:	http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/blackmun/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	2004
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	Emacs text editor with nxml-mode plug-in used to create MODS
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Morgan Cundiff
	Email address:	mcundiff@loc.gov
	Additional contact information:
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana	Institution:	Indiana University Digital Library Program
	Description:	The Indiana University Digital Library Program, in collaboration with the Indiana University Lilly Library, the Indiana State Library, the Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society, has received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create a single Web site to provide access to approximately 10,000 pieces of digitized sheet music from our respective collections. The Web site, IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana, will feature Indiana-related sheet music, that is, sheet music by Indiana composers, arrangers, lyricists or publishers as well as sheet music about the state. Project staff have developed MODS usage guidelines for describing these materials.
	Web site:	http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/inharmony/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	MODS guidelines developed in late 2005 and finalized in early 2006. Final project Web site with metadata and digitized items will be available in 2007.
	Online documentation:	http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/inharmony/projectDoc/index.shtml
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	The cataloging client is written in Java Swing. The client writes records to an Oracle 9i database, which can then export MODS XML records meeting project guidelines.
	Version:	MODS 3.1
	Contact Person:	Jenn Riley
	Email address:	jenlrile@indiana.edu
	Additional contact information:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)	Institution:	University College Dublin (UCD)
	Description:	The primary objective of the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) Project is to realise the latent potential of archival collections within UCD through their digitisation, and the creation of an on-line repository prototype utilising an infrastructure which supports and maintains archival authenticity and collaborative research.
	Web site:	http://www.ucd.ie/ivrla/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	2005 - present
	Online documentation:	http://www.ucd.ie/ivrla/resources/IVRLA_MODS_implementation_final2.pdf
	Documentation notes:	Documentation is ongoing.
	Tools:	A FileMaker Pro Ver. 8 Database is used to catalogue digital objects. XML data from FileMaker Pro is converted to MODS using XSLT. Records will be stored and displayed using Fedora Digital Repository System.
	Version:	MODS 3.2
	Contact Person:	John McDonough
	Email address:	ivrla@ucd.ie
	Additional contact information:
Library of Congress Web Archives (LCWA)	Institution:	Library of Congress
	Description:	The Library of Congress Web Archives (LCWA) is composed of collections of archived web sites that have been cataloged using MODS. It is part of a continuing effort by the Library to evaluate, select, collect, catalog, provide access to, and preserve digital materials for future generations of researchers. The early development project for web archives was called MINERVA.
	Web site:	http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/html/lcwa-home.html
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	MODS descriptions completed 2004-present; Lucene search system provides access to records.
	Online documentation:	http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/html/lcwa-techinfo.html
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	XML Spy & Authentic, Oxygen, Lucene
	Version:	MODS 3.2
	Contact Person:	Tracy Meehleib
	Email address:	tmee@loc.gov
	Additional contact information:
MEditor	Institution:	Moravian Library, Bbno, Czech Republic
	Description:	Metadata editor is a web application capable of editing digital objects stored in Fedora Commons repository and of creating new digital objects from scanned pictures. It can create complex digital objects using the RDF and our domain model (DomainModel). Once, the editing/creation is finished a re-index process on some other system (Kramerius 4 digital library, for instance) can be invoked. Medit is capable of editing the following metadata standards: MODS, Dublin Core, structural metadata in Fedora's native format (FOXML) or METS in the RELS-EXT stream.
	Web site:	http://code.google.com/p/meta-editor/
	Web site notes:	Description, wiki and issues are placed on code.google.com/p/meta-editor/ but source code is hosted on https://github.com/moravianlibrary/MEditor.
	Dates:	2010 - present
	Online documentation:	http://code.google.com/p/meta-editor/wiki/
	Documentation notes:	Developer information is in English. User guide is currently only in Czech h and can be translated by Google Translate.
	Tools:	The main used technologies are Java, GWT, gwt-platform, SmartGWT, Google Guice, Gin, MVP, REST, Z39.50, Scala&Akka, ImageMagick, Djatoka, Kakadu (JPEG2000)
	Version:	MODS 3.3
	Contact Person:	Jiř� Kremser, Pavla �v�stov�
	Email address:	meditor@mzk.cz
	Additional contact information:
MusicAustralia	Institution:	National Library of Australia
	Description:	Used for the contribution of metadata records to the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANDB), the source database for MusicAustralia resource records. The project is based on the collection of metadata records through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and other means (primarily Batch*Link). MODS is used to transform records in a range of local formats, enabling more effective contribution of records from non-Library participants. Records are converted to MARC via MODS.
	Web site:	http://www.musicaustralia.org/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	2003-2004, project is in production. The destination service is due for release by the end of 2004.
	Online documentation:	http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2004/ayres1.html
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	An enhanced version of the LC-provided MODS to MARCXML conversion stylesheet, producing higher quality MARC records and meeting the local needs of the National Bibliographic Database. The stylesheet is still being enhanced.
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Marie-Louise Ayres
	Email address:	mayres@nla.gov.au
	Additional contact information:
Oxford Digital Library (ODL)	Institution:	Oxford University, UK
	Description:	The ODL integrates a number of digitization projects created at Oxford University Libraries within a single metadata environment. MODS is used to encode descriptive metadata for digital objects within a METS framework.
	Web site:	http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/
	Web site notes:	Metadata environment in place. Public access to the collection is planned for 2005.
	Dates:
	Online documentation:	http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/metadatausage.pdf
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	A PHP/MySql webform interface has been developed to allow for the input of descriptive metadata. It is not publicly available at present.
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Richard Gartner
	Email address:	richard.gartner@sers.ox.ac.uk
	Additional contact information:
Peel's Prairie Provinces	Institution:	University of Alberta
	Description:	The Peel's Prairie Provinces website includes MODS records for a variety of digitized materials reflecting western Canadian history and the culture of the Canadian prairies. Distinct collections include textual materials, such as books, pamphlets, etc. (more than 660,000 pages), newspapers (close to 1,000,000 articles), and postcards (over 15,000).
	Web site:	http://peel.library.ualberta.ca
	Web site notes:
	Dates:
	Online documentation:	http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards.html
	Documentation notes:	Existing documentation covers the postcard collection; documentation on textual materials is coming soon
	Tools:	Web-based MODS editor (which uses the Apache Cocoon framework) built in-house; see http://chelsea.library.ualberta.ca/cocoon210/modseditor/index.html
	Version:	MODS 3.2
	Contact Person:	Sharon Farnel; Peter Binkley
	Email address:	sharon.farnel@ualberta.ca
	Additional contact information:	peter.binkley@ualberta.ca
Performing Arts Encyclopedia	Institution:	Library of Congress
	Description:	MODS is used as a METS extension schema to provide bibliographic description for a variety of digital object types including musical scores and parts, audio and video recordings, and photographs.
	Web site:	http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	2004 - present
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	Relational database for descriptive metadata gathering with MODS output; XML text editors (XMLSpy, Emacs with nxml-mode plug-in); MARCXML Toolkit for MARC to MODS conversion; YAZ Z39.50 client for MARC to MODS conversion
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Morgan Cundiff
	Email address:	mcundiff@loc.gov
	Additional contact information:
refbase (Web Reference Database)	Institution:	Institute for Polar Ecology, University of Kiel (Germany) and Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography (Evanston, IL)
	Description:	refbase is a web-based bibliographic manager for scientific literature, references and citations. The current version can import and export references in various formats (including MODS XML, EndNote, BibTeX, ISI, PubMed, and OpenOffice). It can make formatted lists of citations in HTML, RTF, PDF, or LaTeX, and offers powerful searching and RSS support. An SRU/W service and support for unAPI, and COinS metadata allow for easy access by clients and search engines. Source code is currently available.
	Web site:	http://refbase.sourceforge.net/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:
	Online documentation:	http://wiki.refbase.net/
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	Bibutils
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Matthias Steffens & Richard Karnesky
	Email address:	info@refbase.net
	Additional contact information:
RefDB	Institution:	University Hospital of Regensburg, Germany
	Description:	RefDB is a client/server reference manager and bibliography tool for markup languages (XML, SGML, LaTeX, Muse). RefDB provides access through command-line clients, through a web interface, through an SRU server, and through language bindings (Perl, PHP). It also provides text editor integration (Emacs, Vim) for searching and modifying bibliographic data as well as for inserting citations into your markup documents. A Makefile-based document management layer allows simple transformation of your markup documents to printable or web output with formatted bibliographies.
	Web site:	http://refdb.sourceforge.net/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:
	Online documentation:	http://refdb.sourceforge.net/doc.html
	Documentation notes:	Extensive handbook for administration and usage including reference sections for all provided tools an introductory user tutorial, as well as additional documentation for various add-ons.
	Tools:	Bibutils
	Version:	MODS 3.2
	Contact Person:	Markus Hoenicka
	Email address:	markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de
	Additional contact information:	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/refdb-users
TDL Repository	Institution:	Texas Digital Library
	Description:	The TDL Repository is composed of collections digitally archived by the five Association of Research Libraries (ARL) universities in the state of Texas. The TDL Repository serves to preserve and promote the research output of Texas, including electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). TDL is using MODS as the common descriptive metadata syntax for ETDs.
	Web site:	http://repositories.tdl.org/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	MODS application profile completed Dec. 2005. Records converted from DSpace Dublin Core to MODS in January 2006. The joint repository, consisting of ETDs from Texas A&M and the University of Texas, went online on February 1, 2006.
	Online documentation:	http://www.tdl.org/projects/metadata/tdlappprofile.pdf
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	Records converted from DSpace Dublin Core to MODS--using an automated process.
	Version:	MODS 3.1
	Contact Person:	Brian E. Surratt
	Email address:	besurrat@rice.edu
	Additional contact information:
Tibet Oral History Archive	Institution:	The Center for Research on Tibet, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
	Description:	The Tibet Oral History Archive documents in sound (primarily Tibetan) and text (English transcriptions) a large and diverse corpus of oral history interviews with common citizens, former government officials, and monks, both in Tibet and in exile in India. The Tibet Oral History Archive is being prepared for deposit with the Asian Division at the Library of Congress. Files include three digital audio files per interview (*.wav, *.mov, and *.mp3) and one XML file per transcript, encoded in compliance with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. MODS is used as the Extension Schema for the Descriptive Metadata (dmdSec) section of the METS file which documents the entire Archive. A single MODS record describes the Archive, three separate MODS records document each of the three discrete Collections of the Archive, and a minimal MODS record documents each series of interviews with a single interviewee. Detailed information about each interview is included in the TEI Header of each transcript.
	Web site:	http://www.case.edu/affil/tibet/moreTibetInfo/oral_history.htm
	Web site notes:	In development
	Dates:
	Online documentation:	http://www.case.edu/affil/tibet/moreTibetInfo/oral_history.htm
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	XML text editors (NoteTab Pro, XML Spy, and Oxygen); JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology is currently used to store, search (via a Lucene search engine), and access the transcripts, facilitating ongoing editing.
	Version:	MODS 3.0
	Contact Person:	Linda Cantara
	Email address:	linda.cantara@case.edu
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U.C. Berkeley Computer Science Technical Reports	Institution:	University of California Berkeley Library
	Description:	To replace its Dienst infrastructure, the U.C. Berkeley Library is archiving existing and new CS technical reports as METS objects with MODS descriptive metadata. For OAI purposes, descriptive metadata is made available in Simple DC format derived from the native MODS encodings.
	Web site:	http://techreports.lib.berkeley.edu
	Web site notes:	In addition to the local technical reports website, the technical reports are available through OAI service providers such as OAIster http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple. The OAI repository interface is registered as "UCB Technical Reports Repository" at http://www.openarchives.org
	Dates:	In production and ongoing
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	Locally developed metadata gathering and export tools: GenDB, GenX
	Version:	3.2
	Contact Person:	Garey Mills
	Email address:	gmills@library.berkeley.edu
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U.C. Berkeley Library Archival, Rare and Fragile Collections	Institution:	University of California Berkeley Library
	Description:	Largely on a grant-supported project basis, the UC Berkeley Library has digitized and continues to digitize portions of its archival collections and selected rare and fragile materials. The digitized materials are exported as METS objects with MODS encoded descriptive metadata. Most of these METS objects are then ingested into the California Digital Library\'s Online Archive of California and Calisphere.
	Web site:	http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
	Web site notes:	Calisphere and OAC (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/) are all-UC sites maintained by California Digital Library
	Dates:	In production and ongoing
	Online documentation:	http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/mets/presentations/UCBCaseStudy_files/frame.htm
	Documentation notes:	Documentation is a general presentation on UCB's METS creation procedures, and not specific to it's use of MODS
	Tools:	Locally developed metadata gathering and export tools: GenDB, GenX
	Version:	3.2
	Contact Person:	Rick Beaubien
	Email address:	rbeaubie@library.berkeley.edu
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U.C. Berkeley Library Digitized Tables of Content	Institution:	University of California. Berkeley Library
	Description:	To improve researchers' ability efficiently to review and select relevant materials from stored and obscure collections, the U.C. Berkeley Library is digitizing the tables of content for these materials, and packaging these as METS objects. These METS objects includes MODS descriptive metadata derived from MARC metadata in the online catalog.
	Web site:
	Web site notes:	While currently there is no dedicated, public website, records in the library's online catalog link to the digitized Tables of Contents and Indexes in METS format where these are available.
	Dates:	In production and ongoing
	Online documentation:
	Documentation notes:
	Tools:	The MARCXML toolkit is used to produce MODS for incorporation
	Version:	3.2
	Contact Person:	Michael Conkin
	Email address:	mconkin@library.berkeley.edu
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University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC)	Institution:	University of Florida Libraries and Digital Library of the Caribbean
	Description:	All items included in this digital collection (over 100,000 titles as of late 2008) were submitted in MODS format, embedded in METS files. In addition, a service METS/MODS file is used during digital resource display. Access is provided to the metadata for each item through the Citation tab. The Digital Library of the Caribbean is a multi-institutional collection housed at the University of Florida, and runs on the same technology as UFDC.
	Web site:	http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/
	Web site notes:
	Dates:	Dates: 2006 - (ongoing)
	Online documentation:	http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc2/technical/index.htm
	Documentation notes:	Complete documentation for this library (including metadata encoding) is available
	Tools:	A .NET Windows application has been created to allow for distributed metadata editing, and we are working on providing a web ASP.net version.
	Version:	MODS 3.2
	Contact Person:	Mark Sullivan
	Email address:	marsull@uflib.ufl.edu
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