The CARARE metadata schema is a harvesting schema intended for delivering metadata about an organisation’s online collections, heritage assets and their digital resources. The strength of the schema lies with its ability to support the full range of descriptive information about monuments, building, landscape areas and their representations.

The schema is an application profile based on MIDAS Heritage, a detailed standard intended for the full documentation of all aspects of heritage management not all of which are relevant to CARARE . The CARARE schema’s focus is on the detailed description of heritage assets, events in these assets have been involved and information about where digital resources can be accessed online.

The main information classes are:

• Heritage asset – this includes archaeological monuments, historic buildings, industrial monuments, archaeological landscape areas, shipwreck, artefacts and ecofacts as well as printed materials, archives and born-digital objects.
• Digital resource – this provides information about the type, format and location of the online resource.
• Collection information – this describes the collection which holds the content being provided.
• Activity – this includes both historical events which took place at the heritage assets (such as building, alternation, demolition, battles, etc) and archaeological events (such as excavations, surveys, etc).

Version 2.0 of the CARARE metadata schema takes into account the experience gained as a result of aggregating metadata for Europeana from the 24 CARARE content providers, developments in EDM and the requirements of the 3D ICONS project to extend the activity class to include paradata and provenance of 3D models from the CIDOC CRM DIG.

Schema Documentation

CARARE to EDM mapping file is available on request V2.0.6, XLS.