Mods

A Gem to parse MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) records. More information about MODS can be found at Library of Congress.

Source code at github

Generated API docs at rubydoc.info

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mods'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mods

Create a new Mods::Record from a url:

foo = Mods::Record.new.from_url('http://purl.stanford.edu/bb340tm8592.mods')

Create a new Mods::Record from a file:

foo = Mods::Record.new.from_file('/path/to/mods/file.xml')

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Write code and tests.
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request

• (see git commit history for more recent info)
• 2.0.1 Fixed nokogiri issue so no need to pin version number
• 2.0.0 Pinned version of nokogiri to < 1.6.6 because of addition of Node#lang in 1.6.6.1 which conflicts which currently used nodes
• 1.0.0 change jruby version in .travis to 1.7.9-d19; doesn't work with version 1.7.10
• 0.0.23 minor bug and typo fixes
• 0.0.22 add displayLabel and lang attributes to every element
• 0.0.21 bug fix to check for nil values in name nodes
• 0.0.21 Check for the possibility that name_node.display_value is nil
• 0.0.20 added translated_value convenience method to geographicCode (mods.subject.geographicCode.translated_value)
• 0.0.19 term_values and term_value method added to Record object
• 0.0.18 cannot have subelements
• 0.0.17 add display_value and display_value_w_date to name node; add personal_names_w_dates to record
• 0.0.16 add role convenience methods (within name node)
• 0.0.15 make namespace aware processing the default
• 0.0.14 don't lose xml encoding in reader.normalize_mods under jruby
• 0.0.13 really really fix removal of xsi:schemaLocation in jruby
• 0.0.12 fix failing jruby test
• 0.0.11 fix remove xsi:schemaLocation attribute from mods element when not using namespaces
• 0.0.10 remove xsi:schemaLocation attribute from mods element when not using namespaces
• 0.0.9 implement from_nk_node as way to load record object
• 0.0.8 implement relatedItem and attributes on all simple top level elements
• 0.0.7 implement part
• 0.0.6 implement recordInfo, fix to work under jruby
• 0.0.5 implement subject, change a few constants
• 0.0.4 implement language, location, origin_info, physical_description
• 0.0.3 use nom-xml gem and make this more nokogiri-ish; implement name, title, and simple top level elements with no subelements
• 0.0.2 Set up rake tasks, publishing rdoc, and continuous integration.
• 0.0.1 Grab the name