VRA Core Schemas and Documentation

• VRA Core 4.0 Schemas (current version - released 04/09/2007)
  • Unrestricted Version - specifies the basic structure of the schema
  • Restricted Version - extends the unrestricted schema by adding controlled type lists and date formats
  
  
  • 4.0 Supporting Documentation
    
    
    • English
      • VRA Core 4.0 Introduction (last updated 10/28/2014, PDF, 317 KB)
      • VRA Core 4.0 Element Outline (last updated 02/28/2007, PDF, 210 KB)
      • VRA Core 4.0 Element Description and Tagging Examples (last updated 04/05/2007, PDF, 820 KB)
      • Restricted Schema Type Values (last updated 04/04/2007, PDF, 460 KB)
    • Italian
      • VRA Core 4.0 Element Description and Tagging Examples (last updated 08/01/2014, PDF, 595 KB)
        (Translation by Maria Emilia Masci - Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage - Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
    • Greek
      • VRA Core 4.0 Element Description and Tagging Examples  (last updated 02/14/2011, PDF, 345 KB)
        (Translation by Panorea Gaitanou and Manolis Gergatsoulis - Department of Archives and Library Science, Ionian University, Greece[http://tab.ionio.gr/ ])
    • VRA Core 4.0 Copyright and Licensing Information (last updated 11/14/2013, PDF, 11 KB)

• Previous Versions


• 4.0
• How to Convert Version 3.0 to Version 4.0 (last updated 3/9/2007)


• 3.0
• VRA Core 3.0 Introduction (last updated 2/20/2002)
• VRA Core 3.0 Element Description (last updated 2/20/2002)
• VRA Core 3.0 Examples (last updated 2/20/2002)
• VRA Core 3.0 Map to MARC (last updated 2/20/2002)


• 2.0
• VRA Core 2.0 Introduction (last updated 12/01/1999)
• VRA Core 2.0 Elements (last updated 10/15/1997)


• 1.0
• VRA Core 1.0 Introduction (last updated 12/01/1999)
• VRA Core 1.0 Categories (last updated 1996) Originally published as Wees, Dustin J., "Core Categories for Visual Resources. A Draft Proposed by the VRA Data Standards Committee." VRA Bulletin 23, 3 (Fall 1996), pp. 57-63.