Library of Congress MODS in Ruby

Purpose

This is a class-oriented Ruby library that parses LOC’s MOD data.

This gem is developed using the MODS 3.7 XSD schema.

Usage

require 'loc_mods'

# Single record under `<modsCollection>`
LocMods::Collection.from_xml(File.read("spec/fixtures/record_1.xml"))

# Full NIST Tech Pubs records
# https://github.com/usnistgov/NIST-Tech-Pubs/tree/nist-pages/xml
LocMods::Collection.from_xml(File.read("reference/allrecords-MODS.xml"))

Testing

bin/update-nist-mods

License

Copyright Ribose.