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Digital Library Committee
Joint Committee on Metadata (BAER/DLC)

Inventory of Metadata Standards and Practices

List of standards (click to read a summary)

Definition of types of metadata: descriptive, administrative and structural

Metadata standards comparison grid in MS Excel format


Other metadata clearinghouses

Other formats for translation and interchange


Dublin Core

NU summary

Official sites

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1:1 http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
Definitions, examples and notes are provided for each of the 15 elements.

Dublin Core Qualifiers http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-qualifiers/
Includes table of the DC elements, with acceptable qualifiers and schemes. Definitions, examples and notes are also provided for each of the qualifiers and schemes.

Crosswalks

Mapping Between Metadata Formats http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/
from United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN)

DMOZ : Metadata Crosswalks http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Technical_Services/Cataloguing/Metadata/Crosswalks/
from The Open Directory Project

Metadata Standards Crosswalks http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/3_crosswalks/index.html
from Getty Institute

Practitioner sites

Tools and Software http://dublincore.org/tools/
Includes links to web-based metadata templates for creating DC records. Note especially Nordic, and Reggie.

CORC http://corc.oclc.org/
(Authorization: 100-058-514 ; Password: als)

Studies and reports

Survey Results - DC Use in Libraries http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0104&L=dc-general&F=&S=&P=2403
Survey conducted by Carolyn Guinchard (University of Alberta)

Using DC - Resources for Further Information http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/16/usageguide/references.shtml
Webliography of studies and reports on DC.

 

EAD

NU summary

Official sites

Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/

Crosswalks

Getty http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/3_crosswalks/index.html
USMARC to EAD, DC to EAD (and others)

Dublin Core to EAD/GILS/USMARC: Monticello Electronic Library: Dublin Core Element Set Crosswalk - Eric Miller (OCLC), http://www.oclc.org:5046/~emiller/DC/crosswalk.html

EAD to ISAD(G). In: Tony Gill, Anne Gilliland-Swetland and Murtha Baca, Introduction to Metadata, Los Angeles, Calif.: Getty Information Institute, 2000, http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/intrometadata/3_crosswalks/index.htm

Practitioner sites

EAD application guidelines: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/ag ; http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/ag/agappb.html ;
http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/ag/agappc.html ; http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/ag/agappf.html

EAD Tag Library online, http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/tglib/tlhome.html

Some examples (also see the many examples cited on the LC web-site)-these seem to talk about the process quite a bit, so are of particular interest: Utah State Archives:
http://www.archives.state.ut.us/referenc/ead.htm
Reuther Library, http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/collections/hefa_-coll.htm

The EAD Cookbook, http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/cookbookhelp.html
(devised by Michael Fox as "a simple model encoding protocol with an accompanying suite of software tools for 'authoring' electronic finding aids and stylesheets for 'publishing' them"). The stylesheet in this cookbook that best fits our existing format for finding aids is, http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/2468prt.html

Studies and reports

Dooley, Jackie M., ed. Encoded Archival Description: Context, Theory, and
Case Studies (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1999.

 


FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee for National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) (a special interest section of National Information Infrastructure) (primary standard: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: CSDGM)

NU summary

Official sites

FGDC: http://www.fgdc.gov/ ; metadata section: http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/metadata.html

Status of FGDC Standards: http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/status/textstatus.html

Crosswalks

Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk, www.loc.gov/dccross.html and www.loc.gov/marc/dccross_199911.html

FGDC to MARC Metadata Converter, http://cuadra.nwrc.gov/converter

by EE-IR Center, more information at: http://eeirc.nwrc.gov/pubs/crosswalk/fgdc-marc-dc.htm

FGDC to USMARC, Alexandria Digital Library, http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/metadata/fgdc2marc.html , also MARC to FGDC: http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/metadata/marc2fgdc.html

FGDC to GCMD DIF: FGDC Metadata Standard to GCMD DIF - by Lynn Halpern (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Change Master Directory), http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/dif_mapping/fgdc_dif_map5_0.html

Practitioner sites

USGS FAQ on FGDC Metadata: http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/tools/doc/faq.html

USGS Image map of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC): http://biology.usgs.gov/fgdc.metadata/version2/

FGDC - Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/overview/rev_09.htm

Content Stand Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM): http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/contstan.html

Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata, FGDC, http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/standard/metadata.html

Studies and reports

Mapping and Converting Essential Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata into MARC21 and Dublin Core, D-Lib Magazine (Jan. 2000), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/chandler/01chandler.html

Metadata Primer - A "How To" Guide on Metadata Implementation, (CSDGM/FGDC), http://www.lic.wisc.edu/metadata/metaprim.htm

 


GILS

NU summary

Official sites

www.gils.net

Crosswalks

Dublin Core to danMARC2/GILS: Dublin Core/danMARC2/GILS Crosswalk - by Susanne Thorborg (Danish Library Center), URL:http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/dcdancr.html

Dublin Core to FINMARC/GILS: Dublin Core/FINMARC/GILS Crosswalk - by Juha Hakala (Helsinki University Library), http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/dcficross.html

GILS Core Elements to GCMD DIF: GILS Core Elements to GCMD DIF- by Lynn Halpern (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Change Master Directory), http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/dif_mapping/gils_dif_map5_0.html

GILS Core Elements to USMARC: Annex B of the Application profile for the Government Information Locator Service (GILS), Version 2, Nov. 21, 1996 by Eliot Christian (USGS), http://www.gils.net/prof_v2.html#annex_b

Practitioner sites

State of Utah GILS project: http://www.dced.state.ut.us/gils/resources.htm , includes links, local usage, crosswalks, authority resources

Government Information Locator Service (U.S. Federal GILS) via GPO Access: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils/

Studies and reports

 

IMS

NU summary

Official sites

http://www.imsproject.org/

Crosswalks

Practitioner sites

Studies and reports


MARC

NU summary

Official sites

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/marc/

Crosswalks

Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk, www.loc.gov/dccross.html and www.loc.gov/marc/dccross_199911.html

MARC 21 to Dublin Core: MARC to Dublin Core Crosswalk - Library of Congress, Network, Development and MARC Standards Office, February 2001, http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc2dc.html

FGDC to MARC Metadata Converter, http://cuadra.nwrc.gov/converter
by EE-IR Center, more information at: http://eeirc.nwrc.gov/pubs/crosswalk/fgdc-marc-dc.htm

FGDC to USMARC, Alexandria Digital Library, http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/metadata/fgdc2marc.html , also MARC to FGDC: http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/metadata/marc2fgdc.html

Dublin Core to USMARC: Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk - Library of Congress, Network, Development and MARC Standards Office, November 1999, http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/dccross.html

IAFA/ROADS templates to USMARC: IAFA Templates and USMARC - by Michael Day (UKOLN), http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/iafa_marc.html

TEI header to USMARC: TEI2MARC Mapping Based on TEILITE.DTD from the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center - by Jackie Shieh (University of Virginia Library),
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/~ejs7y/tei-marc.html

TEI header to USMARC/Dublin Core: Recommended Mappings OTA Header/USMARC/Dublin Core Elements - by Richard Giordano (University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science), 8 November, 1996. [The full version can be downloaded as a TEI Lite document from the Oxford Text Archive publications page, but a summary in HTML is also available], http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Medlane XML-MARC, http://xmlmarc.stanford.edu/

Practitioner sites

Cataloger's Reference Shelf (many MARC format guides listed here): http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/CRS0000.htm

CONSER Cataloging Manual (Serials): http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/manl1573.htm

CONSER Editing Guide (Serials): http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/edit7375.htm

Studies and reports

See also: MARBI Discussion Paper No. 99: Metadata, Dublin Core, and USMARC: a review of current efforts, January 21, 1997, http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/dp/dp99.html

MARBI Discussion Paper No. 86: Mapping the Dublin Core Metadata Elements to USMARC, May 5, 1995, http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/dp/dp86.html

Thesauri

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html

GEONET (geographic names), http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html

Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (via Getty): http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/

Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) (via Getty): http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/ulan/

 

TEI

NU summary

Official sites

TEI Consortium http://www.tei-c.org/

Crosswalks

University of Virginia's TEI Header description with USMARC equivalents http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/tei-usmarc.html

Oxford Text Archives headers TEI Header/USMARC/DC http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

TEI/MARC best practices from University of Michigan http://www.lib.umich.edu/ocu/teiguide.html

Practitioner sites

Base tag set TEI guidelines http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/ST.htm#STBABA

Projects: http://www.tei-c.org/Applications/index.html

Studies and reports

 


VRA Core

NU summary

Official sites

VRA Core Categories Version 3.0 http://users.rcn.com/elanzi/vracore.htm
A project of the Visual Resources Association Data Standards Committee.
Includes FAQs, description of each core element, and a compendium of examples.

Crosswalks

Practitioner sites

Studies and reports

 


METS

NU summary

Official sites

Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/mets/

Crosswalks

Practitioner sites

Making of America 2 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/

Studies and reports

 


RDF

NU summary

Official sites

W3C http://www.w3c.org/rdf

Crosswalks

Practitioner sites

Studies and reports