Just another example of the fun that can be had with metadata schemes. Get a load of this giant crosswalk chart on the Getty site. This helpful tool makes creating crosswalks and mapping like a walk in the park. If your park is filled with element sets with some controlled values and differing semantics…
Personally, I find it fascinating that there are so many metadata schemes and that each nuance creates a separate usefulness in a particular domain. Then again, I also like nothing more than creating enormous Excel spreadsheets.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/crosswalks.html
I found your blog from the link in Cataloging Futures. Kudos for a well written and designed blog which I will be reading again. In case you were wondering, I am a librarian at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
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