Donor Element Help

Definition

The name of the person, family, or entity responsible for donating the resource to be digitized.

Form Element

In the online templates, this element appears as below:

This form element allows the user to enter the donor name.

Best Practices

For individual donors, enter names as LastName, FirstName MiddleInitial. For institutions or organizations, use the official name of the group. Additional information ( such as a donation note ) can also be used.

Examples

The following are examples of well formatted donor statements:

• Figueroa, Ramón
• Museum purchase, funds provided by friends of the Harn Museum

SobekCM / MODS Encoding

The donor is encoded as a name entity in the MODS section of a SobekCM-formatted METS file:

<mods:name>
    <mods:namePart>Williams, Teddy</mods:namePart>
    <mods:role>
        <mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator">Donor</mods:roleTerm>
    </mods:role>
</mods:name>

Metadata Mapping

MARC to MODS Mapping

• 796 |3 → name (personal, donor)
• 797 |3 → name (corporate, donor)

MODS to MARC Mapping

Mapping from the MODS back to MARC is the reverse of the procedure listed above.

Sources

1. MODS User Guidelines Version 3, Detailed Description of MODS Elements
2. MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data

Contributors

Nicola Hill, Mark Sullivan, and Laurie Taylor

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