The CDWA maps to and/or is the basis of several other metadata
standards for describing works of art and material culture.
Some of them are listed below. Please see the
Metadata Standards
Crosswalk for a mapping between metadata sets.
Cataloging
Cultural Objects (CCO) is a fuller, more prescriptive
set of cataloging rules for a critical subset of the CDWA
subcategories.
CDWA Lite is an XML schema to describe core records
for works of art and material culture based on the CDWA
and the CCO.
VRA Core Categories 4.0
from the Visual Resources Association outlines an XML schema
that is based on the CDWA and CCO.
Object
ID is a small subset of the CDWA categories, developed
to help identify objects for the purpose of protecting them
as cultural property, forms the metadata standard known
as .
CDWA also maps to the MARC
(Machine-readable Cataloging) format.
CDWA maps to the Dublin
Core metadata element set.