workofart-formats

Work of Art Formats

This page documents existing work of art metadata formats.

This is part of a community effort to create a work-of-art microformat. (See also: workofart-examples, workofart-brainstorming.)

Participants

• Tim Gambell

Formats

• Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
• Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO)
• VRA 3.0 CoreCategories
• MARC
• Dublin Core
• Object ID
• Foundation for Documents of Architecture (FDA Guide)
• CIMI
• Encoded Archival Description (EAD)

See Also

Metadata format reference

• For mappings between different metadata formats, consult the Metadata Standards Crosswalks

Other Microformats

• We're following the citation microformat for basic formatting and core terminology
• We're looking at the hcard (and hResume?) microformats for marking up creator information