Metadata

Mapping between metadata formats

Michael Day
UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking,
University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
m.day@ukoln.ac.uk


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

Dublin Core to USMARC: Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk - Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, November 1999.
Available from: <URL:http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/dccross.html>
See also: MARBI Discussion Paper No. 99: Metadata, Dublin Core, and USMARC: a review of current efforts, January 21, 1997.
Available from: <URL:http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/dp/dp99.html>
And: MARBI Discussion Paper No. 86: Mapping the Dublin Core Metadata Elements to USMARC, May 5, 1995.
Available from: <URL:http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/dp/dp86.html>


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

Dublin Core to EAD. In: Tony Gill, Anne Gilliland-Swetland and Murtha Baca, Introduction to Metadata. Los Angeles, Calif.: Getty Information Institute, 2000.
Available from: <URL:http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/intrometadata/3_crosswalks/index.htm>

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

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

Dublin Core to IAFA/ROADS templates: Mapping Dublin Core to ROADS templates - by Michael Day (UKOLN).
Available from: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/dc_iafa.html>

Dublin Core to UNIMARC: Mapping Dublin Core to UNIMARC - by Michael Day (UKOLN).
Available from: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/dc_unimarc.html>

Dublin Core to Z39.50 tag set G: DC to Z39.50 mapping - by Ray Denenberg (Library of Congress). E-mail to meta2@net.lut.ac.uk list, 27-Feb-1997.
Available from: <URL:http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9702&L=dc-general&O=A&P=11864>

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

IAFA/ROADS templates to Dublin Core: Mapping ROADS/IAFA templates to Dublin Core - by Michael Day (UKOLN).
Available from: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/iafa_dc.html>

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

IAFA/ROADS templates to Z39.50 Bib-1 Attribute Set: Mapping IAFA templates to Z39.50 Bib-1 - by Michael Day (UKOLN).
Available from: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/iafa_z3950.html>

SOIF to IAFA/ROADS templates: Mapping SOIF to ROADS (IAFA) templates - by Andy Powell (UKOLN).
Available from: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/soif_roads.html>

SOIF to Dublin Core: Mapping SOIF to Dublin Core - by Andy Powell (UKOLN).
Available from: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/soif_dc.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).
Available from: <URL: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).
Available from: <URL:http://www.gils.net/prof_v2.html#annex_b>

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

FGDC to USMARC: Crosswalk: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata to USMARC - by Elizabeth Mangan (Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress).
Available from: <URL:http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/metadata/fgdc2marc.html>

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

NEW ISAD(G) to SPECTRUM: "Mapping descriptive standards across domains: a comparison of ISAD(G) and SPECTRUM" - Elizabeth Shepherd and Rachel Pringle (University College London), Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. 23, no. 1, 2002, 17-34.

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).
Available from: <URL: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].
Available from: <URL:http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/>

USMARC to EAD. In: Tony Gill, Anne Gilliland-Swetland and Murtha Baca, Introduction to Metadata. Los Angeles, Calif.: Getty Information Institute, 2000.
Available from: <URL:http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/intrometadata/3_crosswalks/index.htm>

USMARC to FGDC: Crosswalk: USMARC to FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata - by Elizabeth Mangan (Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress).
Available from: <URL:http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/metadata/marc2fgdc.html>


Other mappings for art, architecture and cultural heritage information (including CDWA, Object ID, the CIMI schema, MARC, and Dublin Core) can be found in Introduction to Metadata by Tony Gill, Anne Gilliland-Swetland and Murtha Baca, published by the Getty Information Institute, v. 2.0 (2000).
Available from: <URL:http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/3_crosswalks/>

More mappings can be found on the excellent MetaForm Web page, hosted by the State and University Library at Göttingen (SUB), Germany. MetaForm is described as "a database of metadata formats with a special emphasis on the Dublin Core and its manifestations as they are expressed in various implementations." It contains crosswalks between the Dublin Core Element Set and its various dialects and other mappings. The MetaForm service is part of the German META-LIB Project.
Available from: <URL:http://www2.sub.uni-goettingen.de/metaform/>

A good discussion of crosswalking issues can be found in the following papers:

Margaret St. Pierre and William P. La Plant, Issues in crosswalking content metadata standards. (NISO White Paper). Bethesda, Md.: National Information Standards Organisation, 15 October 1998.
Available from: <URL:http://www.niso.org/press/whitepapers/crsswalk.html>

Mary Woodley, Crosswalks: the path to universal access. In: Introduction to metadata: pathways to digital information. Los Angeles, Calif.: Getty Information Institute, 2000.
Available from: <URL:http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/2_articles/woodley/>

This page will be updated from time-to-time, so if anyone knows about other metadata mappings or cross-walks, I would be grateful if they could contact me (e-mail: m.day@ukoln.ac.uk) and I will add the relevant links to this page.


Work on this Web page was initially carried out for the Resource Organisation And Discovery in Subject-based services (ROADS) project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK higher education funding councils under its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.

More information on ROADS can be found on the project's Web pages: <URL:http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/>


Maintained by: Michael Day of UKOLN The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath.
Created: August 1996.
Last updated: 22-May-2002.

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