[DDI-users] EAD or ISAD(G) crosswalk for DDI

[Mark R. Diggory]

I can tell you that the Alliance discussed establishing more 
"Crosswalks" at the last meeting in October. I personally need to learn 
  more about ISAD and EAD before making any judgments myself. I've been 
starting to explore its usage for describing collections of DDI studies.

http://dublincore.org/groups/collections/


I think there may be some initial and somewhat generic MARC based 
crosswalks that can be performed. But there is also the case that a 
large subset of the DDI is not mapped into MARC, I believe its mostly 
just the descriptive study level metadata. So, there would have to be 
some mappings established directly between DDI and (ISAD or EAD).

Its a good discussion to open up.

-Mark

Thomas.Zuercher@bar.admin.ch wrote:

> Hello
> 
> We might be interested to use DDI to describe the databases we have to
> archive. Our description must be compatible to ISAD(G) (= General
> International Standard Archival Description 2nd Ed.) or EAD respectively. (A
> subset of our data must be integrated into the finding system, based on
> ISAD(G)). Theoretically this seems possible, because both of the standards
> can be mapped on MARC-fields. Has anyone already studied this question?
> 
> Sincerely Thomas
> 
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Mark Diggory
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