Q: Arts XML specification ?

[Useko Netsumi]

Is there any XML Specifications for Arts especially for Paintings, Furnitures, and Decorative Arts? Thanks

 

[Andy Dingley]

Is there any XML Specifications for Arts especially for Paintings, Furnitures, and Decorative Arts? Thanks

You'll probably find Dublin Core, the Open Archives Initiative and maybe application profiles like the Bath or Warwick profile worth looking at.

I'd see "an XML specification" (presumably an XML schema) as a _bad_ thing to use here. Use DC at that level, and make it application specific at a level above this, perhaps by using qualified Dublin Core.

There's an awful lot of good work out there already, particularly in the museums and libraries communities.

 

[Useko Netsumi]

Hi Andy, I will definitely check out all the application you mentioned.

As you said earlier and I do agree wit you as well that there are a lot of good work out there already(museums and libraries community) but perhaps if I can get a hold of the schema/data-structure and re-use it so I(or perhaps others) don't have to reinvent the wheel.

Thanks