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3. MODS documentation for OpenEdition Journals

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MODS documentation specific to OpenEdition Journals

See the METS documentation for OpenEdition for MODS elements that are common to OpenEdition Books and OpenEdition Journals.

This page details the elements specific to OpenEdition Journals.

Date of online publication

In the form YYYY-MM-DD (i.e. year-month-day).

xpath: ./mods:originInfo/mods:dateIssued[@encoding="w3cdtf"]

Date of print publication

In the form YYYY-MM-DD (i.e. year-month-day).

xpath: ./mods:originInfo/mods:dateOther[@encoding="w3cdtf"]

Journal issue number

xpath: ./mods:identifier[@type="issue number"]

Issue language

xpath: ./mods:language[@usage="primary"]/mods:languageTerm

The language must be expressed according to the ISO639-1 standard (fr, en, de, etc.).

Licence

(Usually, the licence is chosen at the site level and applies to all issues. If you would like a specific licence for a particular issue, please contact us at revues@openedition.org).

xpath: ./mods:accessCondition

Introduction to the issue

xpath: ./mets:xmlData/mods:note[not(@type="publisher")][@xml:lang="LANG-ISO639-1"]
Where LANG-ISO639-1 corresponds to the language of the introduction according to ISO639-1 (fr, en, de, etc.).

The field is repeatable with different “xml: lang” values if the title is translated into multiple languages. This field can contain plain text or simple HTML elements (<p>, <em>, <strong>, <br/>, <i>, <sub>, <sup>, <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">). For the sake of convenience, during the XML validation of the METS file it is necessary to place the HTML code in a CDATA.
Example: <![CDATA[ <p>Lorem <em>Ipsum</em></p> ]]>

Publisher’s note about the publication

xpath: ./mets:xmlData/mods:note[@type="publisher"]

This field can contain plain text or simple HTML elements (<p>, <em>, <strong>, <br/>, <i>, <sub>, <sup>, <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">). For the sake of convenience, during the XML validation of the METS file it is necessary to place the HTML code in a CDATA.

Indexing

Indexing elements must be placed in <mods: subjects> tags, distinguished by an “authority” attribute:

  • Chronological index entry:
    xpath: ./mods:subject[@authority="chrono"]/mods:topic
  • Thematic index entry:
    xpath: ./mods:subject[@authority="theme"]/mods:topic
  • Geography entry path:
    xpath: ./mods:subject[@authority="geography"]/mods:topic

Note: on Lodel these indexes are not displayed at the volume level. They are visible only on the index pages.

Introduction to a subpart

The tag <mods: note> can be used to signal any introductory text to a subpart.

This field can contain plain text or simple HTML elements (<p>, <em>, <strong>, <br/>, <i>, <sub>, <sup>, <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">). For the sake of convenience, during the XML validation of the METS file it is necessary to place the HTML code in a CDATA.