A Methodology for Sharing Archival Descriptive Metadata in a Distributed Environment

Authors:
Nicola Ferro;Gianmaria Silvello
Affiliations:
Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy;Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
Venue:
ECDL '08 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This paper discusses how to exploit widely accepted solutions for interoperation, such as the pair OAI-PMHand DCmetadata format, in order to deal with the peculiar features of archival description metadata and allow their sharing. We present a methodology for mapping EADmetadata into DCmetadata records without losing information. The methodology exploits DLStechnologies enhancing archival metadata sharing possibilities and at the same time considers archival needs; furthermore, it permits to open valuable information resources held by archives to the wider context of the cross-domain interoperation among different cultural heritage institutions.