VRA Core 4.0 Examples

The following VRA Core 4.0 examples are provided to help users of the VRA Core 4.0 data standard understand how to apply the standard to a wide variety of works of visual culture and the images that document them.

Please note: Source records for these examples were borrowed with permission from ARTstor, University of California Libraries, and others. Some content and encoding in the examples has been altered from the original to insure that they adhere to the recommendations in the VRA Core 4.0 guidelines. The examples are illustrative, not prescriptive, and their inclusion is intended only to assist in understanding how these guidelines might be applied.

XML Schema (Final, 2007-04-09)

Example VRA Core 4.0 Records


#1 (Lindisfarne)
HTML: Display, Full;


#2 (Sleep of Reason)
HTML: Display, Full;


#3 (Corinthian Amphora)
HTML: Display, Full;


#4 (House of the Stags)
HTML: Display, Full;


#5 (Autumn - On the Hudson River)
HTML: Display, Full;


#6 (Chanel Coat)
HTML: Display, Full;


#7 (Hilandar Fresco)
HTML: Display, Full;


#8 (The Gold of Troy)
HTML: Display, Full;


#9 (Pandemonium)
HTML: Display, Full;


#10 (Giovanni de’ Medici before Francis I)
HTML: Display, Full;


#11 (Frankenstein)
HTML: Display, Full;


#12 (Fort Marion drawings)
HTML: Display, Full;


#13 (Weissenhofsiedlung, Houses 5-9)
HTML: Display, Full;

Example METS Records

  • #1 (Los Caprichos) - METS object which links to individual VRA elements with IDs.
    HTML: Display, Full;
  • #2 (Sleep of Reason) - METS object which links to a top-level VRA element.
    HTML: Display, Full;