Making MODS

From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation

Introduction

This page demonstrates how to create MODS files using Archivist Utility from an Excel metadata spreadsheet.

What You Need

• Microsoft Excel
• A solid text editor such as Notepad++ Portable (a Windows text editor) is freely available here.
• Archivist Utility.

Steps

• Open metadata (.xlsx) in Excel and choose SAVE AS.

• Choose the "Text (Tab delimited)" option as shown if the metadata has no diacritics/ "foreign" characters in it.
  • If there are diacritics in the metadata, refer to Diacritics before proceeding.

for information on how to upload MODS, see Uploading MODS