Crosswalking

Crosswalking refers to the conceptual process of associating equivalent metadata values or fields from one schema with metadata values or fields from another schema. Crosswalking is also called mapping.

Examples

• The following table shows how you would map “title” across data models.

Starting Model Name	Starting Model Term	Destination Model Name	Destination Model Term
CDWA	Title Text	VRA Core	<vra: title> in <vra: work> or <vra: collection>
Dublin Core	Tile	MODS	<titleInfo><title>
DACS	2.3 Title	CIDOC CRM	E35_Title

Further Resources

• Harping (2022) “Metadata Standards Crosswalk”
• Schema Crosswalk (Wikipedia)
• TEI (2018) “Crosswalks”