Metadata Authority Description Schema
Encyclopedia
Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS) is an XML schema
developed by the United States Library of Congress
' Network Development and Standards Office that provides an authority
element set to complement the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS).
XML schema
An XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself...
developed by the United States Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
' Network Development and Standards Office that provides an authority
Authority control
Authority control is the practice of creating and maintaining index terms for bibliographic material in a catalog in library and information science. Authority control fulfills two important functions. First, it enables catalogers to disambiguate items with similar or identical headings...
element set to complement the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS).
History
- April 2004: Preliminary version for review
- December 2004: Draft for review
- April 2005: Version 1.0 published