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)
- Unrestricted Version - specifies the basic structure of the schema.
- Restricted Version - extends the unrestricted schema by adding controlled type lists and date formats.
Example VRA Core 4.0 Records
Example METS Records
Resources
- W3C XML Schema site
- W3 Schools XML Schema tutorial and reference
- Code used to format the examples: Display Stylesheet, Full Stylesheet.













