CARARE metadata schema outline v1.0

The CARARE metadata schema is a harvesting schema intended for delivering metadata to the CARARE service environment about an organisation’s online collections, monument inventory database and digital objects. It has been established by the project to ensure interoperability between the native metadata held by heritage organisations and the standards and schemas defined by Europeana.

The CARARE metadata schema builds on existing standards and best practice from a number of different countries in Europe and the rest of the world including MIDAS Heritage (the English Heritage standard), POLIS (an application profile of the CIDOC CRM established by a Greek national project), LIDO (the harvesting schema established by the ATHENA project), the CIDOC archaeological sites core data index, the Council of Europe's Core Data Index to Historic Buildings and Monuments of the Architectural Heritage and the INSPIRE directive for Geographic Information.

This outline of the CARARE metadata schema controls and informs the XML representation of the schema which is used in the CARARE metadata mapping tool and the CARARE repository.