Crosswalking metadata in the OCLC CORC service

Journal of Internet Cataloging

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 81-88

  Childress, Eric ^a  

^a Online Computer Library Center Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosswalks; Dublin Core; MARC; Metadata; OCLC CORC service; OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

Indexed keywords

EID: 20244388893     PISSN: 10911367     EISSN: 15287017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J141v04n01_08     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. "CORC" stands for Cooperative Online Resource Catalog.
2. For more information, see the official Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Web site: http://purl.org/dc
3. OCLC-MARC is based on MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data (Washington: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 1999), a standard jointly maintained by the Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada. MARC 21 is widely used in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
4. St. Pierre, Margaret, and William P. LaPlant, Jr. "Issues in Crosswalking Content Metadata Standards" (Bethesda, Md.: National Information Standards Organization (NISO), Oct. 15, 1998): http://www.niso.org/crsswalk.html
5. A useful list of crosswalks likely to be of interest to the library community is maintained by Michael Day of UKOLN. See "Metadata: Mapping between Metadata Formats": http://www. ukoln.ac.uk/metaduta/interoperability/
6. Text Encoding Initiative: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/
7. Gateway for Educational Materials, see: http://geminfo.org/Workbench/Metadata/ GEM_Eiement_List.html
8. Encoded Archival Description: http://www.ioc.gov/ead/
9. Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/ contstan.html
10. VRA Core Categories (published by the Visual Resource Association): http://www.oberlin.edu/~urt/vra/wcl.html
11. Heery, Rachel. "Review of Metadata Formats," Program, vol. 30, no. 4, October 1996, pp. 355-362.
12. Mandel, Carol. "Manifestations of Cataloging in the Era of Metadata," ALCTS/LITA Institute on Managing Metadala for the Digital Library, May 4-5, 1998. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/metadata/presentation/alctslita/
13. Hopkins, Judith. "USMARC as a Metadata Shell," Journal of Internet Cataloging, 1999, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 55-68.
14. Gorman, Michael. "Metadala or Cataloguing? A False Choice" Journal of Internet Cataloging, 1999, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 5-22.
15. Caplan, Priscilla, and Rebecca Guenther. "Metadata for Internet Resources: The Dublin Core Metadata Elements Set and Its Mapping to USMARC," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 1996, vol. 22, no 3/4, pp. 43-58.
16. In the context of standards directly relevant to the CORC System, OCLC has voting or other representation in organizations that develop/maintain/govern: HTML, XML, RDF, MARC 21, UNIMARC, Unicode, and the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set.
17. Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/dccross./html
18. Some differences will be encountered for some records-CORC will not impose WorldCat's record size limits for example, and some data available in the Dublin Core view will not be visible in the MARC view (or part of the WorldCat record), but most users using most records will not notice significant differences in the metadata visible in OCLC-MARC form in the respective databases.
19. A 16 Feb. 2000 thread on CORC-L, CORC's electronic discussion list, summarizes OCLC's plans and references an administrative core proposal made by staff members of the Distributed Systems and Technology Centre and the National Library of Australia. See: http://orc.rsch.oclc.org:5103/corc-l/msg00901.html
20. Unicode home page: http:/lwww.unicode.org/