Abstract

REPEATABLE MULTILINGUAL

MODS Element name: <genre>

Short definition: A term or phrase that designates a category characterizing a particular style, form, or content, such as artistic, musical, cinematic, literary composition, etc.

Input guidelines: Describe the content of the resource (e.g.; daguerreotypes, short films, portraits). Use the Form/Medium field set to characterize the physical form of the resource itself. Designate a primary genre, even if only one genre is entered. Use authority control and enter term from a recommended vocabulary: Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms, Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Definition

A term or phrase that designates a category characterizing a particular style, form, or content, such as artistic, musical, cinematic, literary composition, etc.

DAMS input form fields

Genre(s)

DAMS form field name	form field type	required	MODS element	Collections Portal display	notes

DAMS form field name	form field type	required	MODS element	Collections Portal display	notes
Genre Term	text field	no	genre	Type*	The values entered as Genre terms are merged with metadata values for Form/Medium and Type of Resource for display on the Collections portal. If you do not use a controlled vocabulary, check the Type facet on the Collections portal to avoid spelling variants for uncontrolled terms.
Primary Genre?	dropdown selection yes no	no	genre[@usage] (attribute of genre)	N/A	MultiExcerpt Include
Authority	dropdown selection (empty/none) aat gmgpc lcgft lcsh	no	genre[@authority] (attribute of genre)	N/A	MultiExcerpt Include
Language of Genre Term	text field	no	genre[@lang] (attribute of genre)	N/A	MultiExcerpt Include

MODS Element description

Element <genre>

https://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/genre.html

Guidelines for use

Describe the content of the resource (e.g.; daguerreotypes, short films, portraits). Use the Form/Medium field set to characterize the physical form of the resource itself. Designate a primary genre, even if only one genre is entered. Use authority control and enter term from a recommended vocabulary: Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms, Library of Congress Subject Headings. Follow your unit/collection guidelines.

Attributes

Attribute name	Details	XPath syntax examples
usage	value: primary MultiExcerpt	genre[@usage="primary"]
authority	values: aat gmgpc lcgft lcsh MultiExcerpt	genre[@authority="lcsh"]
authorityURI	values: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/ http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/graphicMaterials http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects	genre[@authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects"]
lang	MultiExcerpt	genre[@lang="eng"]

Subelements

No subelements for <genre>.

XML Examples

<genre authority="aat" authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/" lang="eng">daguerreotypes</genre> <genre authority="aat" authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/" lang="eng" usage="primary">portraits</genre>

Mappings

Dublin Core

Depending on the direction of mapping necessary, check

DC to MODS: https://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/dcsimple-mods.html
MODS to DC: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-dcsimple.html

The following specific guidelines apply for the DAMS:

Dublin Core field

Mapping condition

MODS element

Notes

dc:type

genre

Approximate mapping.

Depending on the exact content, dc:type might also map to MODS element typeOfResource.

MARC 21

MultiExcerpt

Solr

In general, all MODS metadata is imported into the DAMS Solr server upon ingest. The ingest process generates Solr fields typically named according to the following schema:

mods_value*_suffix

where

value* can be one or multiple element, subelement or attribute names that allow to distinguish Solr fields
suffix is s, t, ss, ms or mt, which refers to the type of data stored in a Solr field and how it is indexed. The Solr index usually contains multiple copies of each field with the same content, distinguished by their suffix.

The following table shows mappings between MODS elements and Solr fields for those fields that are currently used for display in the Collections portal, or where additional processing happens in Islandora or during the publishing process. Suffixes are ignored, unless relevant for the mapping.

MODS element

Mapping condition

Solr DAMS

Solr Collections Portal

Notes

genre

mods_type_consolidated_ms

The value for Genre is merged with metadata values for Form/Medium and Type of Resource for display on the Collections portal (label "Type").

genre

mods_type_consolidated_ms

display_type_ms

The value for Genre is merged with metadata values for Form/Medium and Type of Resource for display on the Collections portal (label "Type").

The Solr field display_type_ms is generated from mods_type_consolidated_ms upon publishing, to feed the "Type" facet on the Collections portal start page. The first letter of each word is capitalized.