Summary reaction to: MODS meets Manakin: Innovations in the Texas Digital Library's Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Citation:

Surratt, Brian E. (2006). "MODS meets Manakin: Innovations in the Texas Digital Library's Thesis and Dissertation Collection." 9th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Quebec City, June 7-10, 2006.

This article address the shortcomings of MARC and DC for the description of electronic thesis and Dissertations ETD. Both standards are currently used in most ETD applications with varying degrees of success, but most notably both are not used consistently to provide ideal access.

The application profile for the Texas Digital Library (TDL) is outlined and the drawbacks are named. For instance, publisher and rights elements were present in ETD-MS, but not defined in MODS. The concept of publisher is not well accepted for electronic dissertations in libraries. The author also discusses other complications in the use of MODS for the ETD community. The inclusion of the comparison table for ETD-MS and TDL MODS is very effective in demonstrating the application profile for the TDL.