VRA Core Categories

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VRA Core Categories

• by
• Visual Resources Association (VRA)
• 3.0 and 4.0

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VRA Core 3.0http//www.vraweb.org/resources/data
standards/vracore3/index.html

• Content 17 Categories/elements
• Feature
• a DC-like elements set for image collections
• focuses on visual resource communitys need
• heavy use of CDWA elements

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VRA CORE CATEGORIES 3.0 17 elements

• Record Type
• Type
• Title
• Measurements
• Material
• Technique
• Creator
• Date
• Location
• ID Number
• Style/Period
• Culture
• Subject
• Relation
• Description
• Source
• Rights

• Discussion in class
• Please mark those elements that DC has.
• Check the qualifiers at
• http//www.vraweb.org/resources/datastandards/vrac
  ore3/index.html
• 3. Discuss the elements that DC did not include.

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VRA Core 4.0

• http//www.vraweb.org/projects/vracore4/index.html
  
• Released 4/9/2007
• VRA Core 4.0 changes have been made in order to
  make the Core XML-compliant.

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VRA Core 4.0 Elements
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Elements changes
See examples from element set ?
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Display, Indexing, and Annotation
VRA Core XML schema provides each element with
two separate subelements, display and notes, for
display and annotation purposes respectively.
For display, optional in set
For indexing, required tag in a set
See examples from VRA Website ?
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Relationships between records

• Work to work
• Image to Work
• Image to Collection
• or
• Work to Collection

See examples from VRA Website From CCO Website ?
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VRA Core 4.0 Elements, Sub-element, Attributes

• work, collection, or image (id)
• agent
• - attribution
• - culture
• - dates (type)
• earliestDate (circa) latestDate (circa)
• - name (type)
• - role
• culturalContext
• date (type)
• - earliestDate (circa)
• - latestDate (circa)
• description
• inscription
• - author
• - position
• - text (type)
• location (type)
• - name (type)

• material (type)
• measurements (type, unit)
• relation (type, relids)
• rights (type)
• - rightsHolder
• - text
• source
• - name (type)
• - refid (type)
• stateEdition (count, num, type)
• - description
• - name
• stylePeriod
• subject
• - term (type)
• technique
• textref
• - name (type)
• - refid (type)

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