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 Extract the MODS metadata of a bunch of METS files into a pandas DataFrame.
 
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 Column names are derived from the corresponding MODS elements. Some domain
 knowledge is used to convert elements to a useful column, e.g. produce sets
 instead of ordered lists for topics, etc. Parts of the tool are specific to