Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) – The CCO Commons examples in VRA Core 4 XML

<a href="https://vraweb.org/resources/cataloging-cultural-objects/"><em>“Cataloging Cultural Objects - a Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images”</em> (CCO)</a> provides a data content standard for catalogers of cultural heritage. It is a guidebook for how to populate data elements and where to apply controlled vocabulary standards. The guide is further supported by a larger number of examples in text format provided on the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190307174324/http://cco.vrafoundation.org/index.php/toolkit/index_of_examples">CCO Commons</a> webpage. A project of the <a href="http://hra.uni-hd.de">Heidelberg Research Architecture</a> focused on encoding all CCO Commons examples in machine readable format using the "strict" version of the <a href="https://www.loc.gov/standards/vracore/">VRA Core 4 XML metadata schema</a>. The records make use of the <a href="https://github.com/exc-asia-and-europe/schemas">multilingual extensions</a> of the VRA Core 4, developed by the HRA. We provide the full XML data set as example for the implementation of VRA Core 4 XML and a use case for its adaptation to multi-lingual and non-Latin script metadata.