A Modular Ontology for MODS -- Metadata Object Description Schema
Rushrukh Rayan Cogan Shimizu Heidi Sieverding Pascal Hitzler
The Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) was developed to describe
bibliographic concepts and metadata and is maintained by the Library of
Congress. Its authoritative version is given as an XML schema based on an XML
mindset which means that it has significant limitations for use in a knowledge
graphs context. We have therefore developed the Modular MODS Ontology (MMODS-O)
which incorporates all elements and attributes of the MODS XML schema. In
designing the ontology, we adopt the recent Modular Ontology Design Methodology
(MOMo) with the intention to strike a balance between modularity and quality
ontology design on the one hand, and conservative backward compatibility with
MODS on the other.