Hi,

I need some advise on creating MODS records for our institutional 
repository. In particular I wonder how best to express the different 
access restrictions on digital files when a record contains more than one 
full-text file. E.g. what we do now is write something like:

<location>
   <url displayLabel="ruimtelijk_bestuursrecht_Geert_13-12-10.pdf">https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/1927382/file/1927384</url>
</location>
<physicalDescription>
   <internetMediaType>application/pdf</internetMediaType>
</physicalDescription>
<accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">restricted (changes to open on 
2016-01-01)</accessCondition>

and this repeated for every full-text file in the record

I don't like this solution because:

  1. This make the MODS context-sensitive: the order of local, physical, 
accessCondition has a meaning (the first accessCondition is for the first 
location, the second accessCondition ois for the second loaction etc etc).
As I understand the order of elementents in MODS shouldn't matter.
  2. Access conditions and embargo's are free-text!

Are there best practices we should use?

Greetings from Belgium
Patrick

Ghent University Library