Making MODS

From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation

  for information on how to make MODS, see Uploading MODS

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 great text editor) is freely available here.

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

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