Cultural Heritage Agency, which provides service for collecting, storing, managing, and using of cultural contents, is gradually expanding access to the cultural contents to the users through distributed network. However, the metadata formats, which a ...
Cultural Heritage Agency, which provides service for collecting, storing, managing, and using of cultural contents, is gradually expanding access to the cultural contents to the users through distributed network. However, the metadata formats, which are used in the cultural heritage agency such as library, museum, and art museum, vary from simple format like Dublin Core or Object ID to complicated or plentiful one like CDWA or MARC. It's hard to integrative or cooperative network between different systems. This is due to the fact that the Cultural Heritage Agency is using the names, expressions, and meanings differently in metadata elements of various cultural contents. Thus, it is necessary to compare and analyze elements of the metadata formats, which are adopted by each culturalheritage agency to set the standard for the unification of cultural contents. In addition, proper organization and management of standardizied metadaa is vital in order to obtain the interoperability with the current standardized formats. In this study, the researcher has analyzed the data elements of each format based on Dublin core, EAD, VRA, CDWA and Object ID. Many examples from various cultural heritage agencies, such as the National library of Korea, National Museum of Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art were ananlyzed these formats were explored from various aspects in the field of cultural contents. Thus, this study suggests the core metadata elements of minimum level and makes the crosswalk for obtaining the interoperability of different metadata formats.