The VRA Data Standards Committee (DSC) is happy to announce that the
VRA Core 4.0 Beta Draft documents and
XML schema are now available for review. You can access
these documents from the DSC home page at
http://www.vraweb.org/datastandards/VRADS_Main_page.htm or more
directly at http://www.vraweb.org/datastandards/VRA_Core4_Welcome.html
There you will find the following Core 4.0 related documents:
Introduction, Element
Outline, Element Description, and the VRA Core XML Schema and Examples
page. This last page, beautifully designed by our schema author Esme
Cowles, has links to two XML schemas (one lax and one strict) and a
number of examples submitted by DSC members. Each example has 2 data
"views," created by xslt stylesheets to illustrate how the XML data may
be formatted for different kinds of display, in addition to a raw XML
data view. At the bottom of this page are links to an XML validator,
some XML information sites, and the stylesheets and java source code
used to format the examples.
We are currently looking for brave beta testers to put the XML schema
through its paces by testing it against real-world data and
applications. An Online Discussion Forum has been set up where anyone
can post, read, and/or reply to comments,
questions, and suggestions. It is accessible from
http://www.vraweb.org/datastandards/VRA_Core4_Welcome.html
You do not need to be a VRA member to read, post, or reply to this
forum. Just click on the Online Discussion Forum link, pull down the
Community menu (top left), choose Bulletin Board, then click on the VRA
Core 4.0 Beta link. If you are not a VRA member, please be
sure to include your name and institutional affiliation along with your
post so we know who's talking! The success of the XML schema depends
on
testing its limits in a variety of settings and with different kinds of
collection data. All of these documents represent working drafts that
may change at any time, based on input received via the Discussion
Forum
so don't be shy about making yourself heard. Your suggestions and
findings will help shape this into a truly useful tool. Please try to
send your comments and/or test results to the Online Discussion Forum
by January 31, 2006
Jan Eklund
Chair, VRA Data Standards Committee
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