MODS export authors

elare · September 28, 2023

Exporting a zotero collection as MODS in Zotero version 6.0.27 I get the autor names with the wrong roleTerm:


    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="family">Petrarca</namePart>
      <namePart type="given">Francesco</namePart>
      <role>
        <roleTerm type="code" authority="marcrelator">aut</roleTerm>
      </role>
    </name>

The correct roleTerm code for authors is "cre" for cretator.
Any idea what's wrong here?

Thanks,
Christoph

adamsmith · September 28, 2023

Why do you think that should be "cre"?
As indicated by the authority attribute, we're using the MARC relator there, and as per
https://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html

Author [aut]
A person, family, or organization responsible for creating a work that is primarily textual in content, regardless of media type (e.g., printed text, spoken word, electronic text, tactile text) or genre (e.g., poems, novels, screenplays, blogs).

which looks good to me.

Creator [cre] is also an option, but I think aut is the better and more specific choice here.

(I looked in the LC Catalog to see what they're doing, but their MODS either doesn't use anything or uses type="text" with "author", so that's of little help).

elare · September 29, 2023

I refer to https://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods2marc-mapping.html where the code "cre" is used to create MARC 100 fields. The same does the tool Marcedit.
So if I convert MODS data from Zotero to MARC, the autor of a book for example becomse category 700, not 100 in MARC.
That's why I asked.
Christoph