[Metadatalibrarians] MODS and public art

[Anne Mitchell]

Hello all,

I'm currently working with a collection of images of artwork around 
campus.  We have been using MODS for still images and it has worked well 
for us up to this point, but I'm not sure what would be the best way to 
encode the physical location of an artwork (i.e., "Science & Research 
Plaza") in MODS.  physicalLocation doesn't seem to be quite appropriate 
for this usage, nor does a geographic heading.  Needless to say, the 
art-oriented standards handle this much better, but I'd rather not 
incorporate an additional (and unfamiliar) standard into our database at 
this point.  Are there any best practices you have developed or 
discovered to address this issue?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide,

Anne

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Anne M. Mitchell
Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services

University of Houston
114 University Libraries
Houston, TX  77204-2000

Phone:  713-743-9685
Fax:  713-743-9748
Email:  amitchell at uh.edu
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