CONTEXT:
To learn more about Dublin Core go to...
http://dublincore.org
http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/
A brief explanation of Dublin Core is found at...
http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/#whatis
The Dublin Core Metadata Registry is found at...
http://www.dublincore.org/dcregistry/
To learn more about the MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data, go to...
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhome.html
To learn more about the MARC 21 LITE Format for Bibliographic Data, go to...
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/lite/genintro.html
To Understand MARC Bibliographic Records, go to...
http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/
To Understand MARC Authority Records, go to...
http://www.loc.gov/marc/uma/
About the Dublin Core to MARC 21 Crosswalk...
MARC is the acronym for MAchine-Readable Cataloging. It defines a data format that emerged from a Library of Congress-led initiative that began thirty years ago. It provides the mechanism by which computers exchange, use, and interpret bibliographic information. Its data elements make up the foundation of most library catalogs used today. MARC became USMARC in the 1980s and MARC 21 in the late 1990s.
Issued in 2001-03-12, a Crosswalk was crafted to establish metadata element pairings between MARC 21 and Dublin Core, both unqualified and qualified. At first glance, the mappings are cryptic; but that is the nature of the coding schemes used to express MARC 21 metadata records.
Listed below is the link to the Library of Congress web page that reports the Crosswalk between Dublin Core and MARC 21.
