Abstract

Recently, the organizations related to cultural contens are gradually expanding access to cultural contents for general public through the distributed network. However, since cultural contents have different characteristics than general contents, the objects of cultural contents seldom contain the words generally used for organization and seach of information. If the cultural contents system is created without any consideration of such differences, we cannot effectively identify and search resources. Moreover, because the names, expressions and meanings are different between matadata elements of various cultural contents, it is very difficult to interconnect or share information between different systems. In order to solve these problems, proper organization and management of metadata is vital. In this study, we have comparatively analyzed the data elements of each format based on Dublin Core, EAD, VRA, CDWA, CIMI, and Object ID, the metadata formats approached from various aspects in the cultural contents area. Through this study, we tried to provide the basic materials for integration of cultural contents by securing interoperability of different meta formats.