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Another metadata scheme for the visual arts community is the Visual Resources Association, VRA Core Categories, now in version 3. "The VRA Core Categories, Version 3.0 consist of a single element set that can be applied as many times as necessary to create records to describe works of visual culture as well as the images that document them."




- Vra Core Schemas Now Hosted By Library Of Congress
News from LC. The VRA Core is a data standard for the description of works of visual culture as well as the images that document them. The standard is now being hosted by the Network Development and MARC Standards Officeof the Library of Congress (LC)...

- Kernel Metadata
For those times when Dublin Core is too complex, there is Kernel metadata. Just four elements, who, what, when and, where.Kernel metadata is a small prescriptive vocabulary designed to support highly uniform but minimal object descriptions for the purpose...

- Functional Requirements For Describing Agents
There is now a draft version of Functional Requirements for Describing Agents by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative - Agents Working Group. Looks it over and submit your comments.This document aims to set out the requirements and the metadata elements...

- Cdwa Lite
Now available, the XML Schema Content for Contributing Records via the OAI Harvesting Protocol (Version 0.09)CDWA Lite is an XML schema to describe core records for works of art and material culture based on the Categories for the Description of Works...

- Art Metadata
Another resource from the Getty Institute is the Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA). This is the description from the introduction:"The Categories describe the content of art databases by articulating a conceptual framework for describing...



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