Making MODS

From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation

To generate MODS from Excel spreadsheets one will need Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Calc, a solid text editor and Archivist Utility.

• OpenOffice Portable is freely available here.
  • We have found that we generally get better results in creating tab delimited text files (necessary for Archivist Utility) from OpenOffice, given the greater number of export options.

• Notepad++ Portable, a very good text editor, is freely available here.

The portable versions can easily be installed, likely without the need for assistance from IT staff.

  A brief, Microsoft Word tutorial describing the step to generate MODS is available here.