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Hello, and welcome to this instructional screencast on the Curator's Workbench. This is Jennifer
Martin from the Carolina Digital Repository.
In this screencast, I will show you how to create a crosswalk in the Workbench, as well
as how to view the resulting MODS records and how to transfer crosswalks between projects.
Crosswalks map user-supplied metadata to MODS elements.
The supplied metadata must be in a delimiter-separated values format.
To create a new crosswalk, select the project which contains the objects you are describing.
Select File>New>Metadata Crosswalk, and give the crosswalk a name.
On the next screen, choose the delimiter-separated values document which contains the supplied
metadata.
Specify the relevant details about the file.
Note that the preview pane provides a live view of how the Workbench is interpreting
the file.
Click finish.
Then map the user-supplied metadata to MODS elements.
Please see the Crosswalk Mapping screencast for instructions on how to do this.
If you want to see the results of a crosswalk, right-click on the crosswalk in the navigation
page and select Run.
The generated MODS records are listed under the crosswalk; you can click on any of them
to view the record in the properties pane.
If you make changes to the crosswalk and want to see how that affects the MODS records,
run the crosswalk again to update the listing of MODS records.
Note that crosswalk-generated metadata will not be included in the final METS manifest
unless you have run the crosswalk.
Also, if you make changes to the crosswalk, you must re-run it for the changes to be included
in the manifest.
If you have multiple projects that draw from the same user-supplied metadata, crosswalks
can be shared between those projects.
To do this, open the crosswalk and click the "Save As" button.
Select the project you want to share the crosswalk with.
If you want the shared crosswalk to have a different name, change it in the "File Name"
text box.
Click "OK".
A copy of the crosswalk is saved to the selected project.
And that's the basics of using crosswalks in the Workbench.
For more information about the Workbench and further instructions on how to use it, please
see our other screencasts.
You can also visit the CDR site to see live examples of Workbench-created collections,
the GitHub repository for code, or our blog for release information.
Thank you for listening, and have a nice day!