ETD Guide/Technical Issues/Metadata, cross walks

With the advent of ETDs, traditional catalogers can learn about cataloging online resources, or they can apply what they already know about cataloging online resources to cataloging theses. Catalogers may need to adapt existing policies and procedures, but their workstations may already have the necessary software (e.g., word processor, PDF reader, etc.). This may also be an opportunity to implement cataloging policy changes, for example, allowing authors to assign keywords in addition to or instead of continuing to assign a controlled vocabulary such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Of course, catalogers will add the necessary MARC fields required for computer files. More information can easily be added to the bibliographic record because of the ease of copy-and-paste features of word processors, so include the abstract in online catalog records and index this field to enhance findings through keyword searching.

The following table includes MARC fields included in bibliographic records for ETDs, with additional information about Dublin Core metadata, etc. For the latest information about ETD metadata, see http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/current.html

METADATA CROSSWALK http://www.dlib.vt.edu/~paul/ndltd/scm0998_imp-dev.htm (link to fuller document)

M = mandatory

O = optional

R = highly recommended

MARC 502 derived from type, creator's institution, date valid MARC 538 = format

Paul Mather and Gail McMillan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Nov. 18, 1998

MARC does not equal Metadata: missing from Metadata=file size;

several notes (vita, abstract), 949/040 (more?)

Leader and 008 -- some redundant info from variable fields

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