March 20/2008 Class Notes
March 20, 2008
metadata-crosswalks
http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.pdf
http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcdocz.html
“A crosswalk allows metadata
created by one community to be
used by another group that employs
a different metadata standard.”
Crosswalk
Organizations follow different standards. Institutions have specific users for their metadata schemes. Crosswalk shows relatedness between metadata schemes. It is about element to element mapping. It is important to keep a consistency across metadata standards.
It seems to me that metadata is more stable than Dublin core.
One of the importances for Dublin Core is that institutions can add websites that they create for their collections.
It seems like there is no way to include everything in Dublin Core so only the useful ones are included. I don’t think it will be possible to allow mapping from Dublin Core to MARC.
There are differences between MARC and Dublin Core for sure. Dublin core is a simpler way than MARC. It makes it easier to search the metadata.
What Dublin Core is important is that it is a machine readable online website.
