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Tools for Catalogers

Metadata standards and organizations

Current schemes

CDWA (Categories for the Description of Works of Art)

CSDGM (Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata)

DC (Dublin Core)

EAD (Encoded Archival Description)

IEEE LOM (Learning Objects Metadata)

MARC/XML

METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard

MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)

ONIX 3.0

TEI P4 (Text Encoding Initiative)

VRA Core 4.0 (Visual Resources Association)

XOBIS (XML Organic Bibliographic Information Schema)

Crosswalks

EAD crosswalks / from LC

Mapping between metadata formats / from UKOLN

MARC mapping to MODS 3.1 / from LC

MARC to Dublin Core / from LC

Metadata mappings / from MIT

Metadata standards crosswalks / from the Getty Institute

ONIX to MARC21 / from LC

University of Oregon Art & Architecture Images : crosswalks to VRA 3.0 & DC

UNTL Digital Products Unit crosswalks / from the University of North Texas Libraries

VRA Core 3.0 to MARC21

Attribute values sources

Date and time formats / W3C

DCMI type vocabulary

MARC value list for relators and roles

Mime media types

MODS identifier attributes

Content standards

Cataloging cultural objects (CCO)

Describing archives: A content standard (DACS)

AACR2 (via Cataloger's Desktop- requires password)

XML

A gentle introduction to XML / from TEI