Date:         Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:38:18 -0700
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From:         John Banning <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: pseudonyms
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Clifford,
Can you provide an example?

thanks, John


Clifford Wulfman wrote:
> John,
>
>     We've been running into this all the time as we catalog early 
> twentieth-century periodicals. Our approach has been to use record the 
> name as it appears in the MODS record and then use MADS records to 
> capture the relationship among names.
>
> On Jun 21, 2006, at 2:00 PM, John Banning wrote:
>
>> While attempting to document the metadata for a issues of several Dime
>> Novels (http://garamond.stanford.edu:9001/dp/owai/127_401_R.jpg), it has
>> been revealed that the authors often go by pseudonyms. For instance 
>> "A New
>> York Detective".
>>
>> How should this be captured in MODS? Does anyone have any examples?
>> Obviously this should be captured in the <name> element, but are 
>> there sub
>> elements or attributes that designate pseudonyms?
>>
>> Thanks for any and all help,
>> John Banning
>> Stanford University
>
> Clifford Wulfman
> Technical Director, Modernist Journals Project
> Brown University
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