Making MODS

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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.

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  • Save the .txt file in a prepared "Metadata" folder in the Digital_Coll_Complete directory.
  • Open the .txt folder with your text editor. Do a find and replace to remove all the quotation marks that have appeared during the export.
  • Open Archivist Utility.

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  • Load the correct MODS template by choosing the "Load XML Template".
    • For "old" metadata spreadsheets, this template is MODS-template_7.ds.xml
    • For m01 metadata spreadsheets, this template is AU_template.m01_5.xml
    • Both of these templates can be found in S:\Digital Projects\Administrative\forSoftware\ArchivistUtility
  • Chose the "Load Data" tab and select your .txt file.
  • Choose the "Log" tab to check for errors.
  • If no errors, chose "Export All Rows" and place the MODS output in the prepared MODS folder in the Digital_Coll_Complete directory. 



for information on how to upload MODS, see Uploading MODS
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