Descriptive Metadata

Section: Subject (topic)

Name

subjectTopic

Schema

MODS

Definition

This section describes any subject of the resource that is not appropriate in one of the other Subject subelements.

subjectTopic has the following components:

• A value (the topic)
• Attributes:
  • authority
  • xlink
  • ID

Label

Subject (topic) - Topic

Example(s)

Art, photography, and architecture [MIC]; Knitting--Florida--Palm Beach--1910-1920; Portrait photographs--1910-1920.

Repeatable

Y

Name

subjectTopicAuthority

Label

Subject (topic) - Term source

Controlled Vocabulary

Moving Image Collection (MIC) [http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC/text/how/unioncat_registry_table_01_05.htm]

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) [http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/]

Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (lctgm) [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/]

Art & architecture thesaurus (AAT) [http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/]

U.S. National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary (MeSH) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=mesh]

Getty thesaurus of geographic name (TGN) [http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/]

Local (terms provided by local institution)

Name

subjectTopicXlink

Label

n/a; does not appear on form

Definition

This attribute is used for an external link to authority records

Name

subjectTopicID

Label

n/a; does not appear on form

Definition

This attribute is used to link internally and to reference an element from outside the instance. Will be assigned to all authorized headings.