Exploring Metadata Interoperability in the United States and United Kingdom

Exploring Metadata Interoperability in the United States and United Kingdom. Charlotte Kostelic. bloggERS! March 28, 2017.    
     A post about international perspectives on digital preservation. It looks at a comparative analysis of descriptive metadata for collections and specifically understanding how metadata can aid in providing access to digitized collections and inter-operable access for the collections. One goal of this analysis was to find a common data model for the various collections.

• The standards used by the partner institutions include: 
• Encoded Archival Description (EAD) with DACS for archival collections in the United States; 
• ISAD(G) for archival collections in the United Kingdom; 
• MARC for bibliographic, map, serial, and print collections; and 
• Dublin Core employed for certain digital collections records. 
• There are additional library and museum standards that need to be analyzed further.
• Key access points include: subject headings; dates; languages; and place, personal, and corporate names.
• The level of description between collections varies based on whether or not the materials are from archival collections or library collections.

There is a need for inter-operability between collections that use different data models, especially in an institution that intends to make all collections accessible in a single viewer.

Digital Preservation Matters.