MIDAS-Heritage

A British cultural heritage standard for recording information on buildings, archaeological sites, shipwrecks, parks and gardens, battlefields, areas of interest and artefacts.

Sponsored by the Forum on Information Standards in Heritage, MIDAS Version 1.1 was released in October 2012.

Summary Edit

Standard Website
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/midas-heritage/
Specification
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/publications/publicationsNew/guidelines-standards/midas-heritage/midas-heritage-2012-v1_1.pdf
Related Vocabularies
INSCRIPTION
Subjects
Arts and Humanities
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Disciplines
Archaeology
Architecture
Building Conservation
Heritage Studies
Historical and Philosophical Studies
History by Area

Extensions Add

CARARE metadata schema Edit

An application profile of the MIDAS Heritage standard intended for delivering metadata to the CARARE service environment about an organisation’s online collections, monument inventory database and digital objects.

Tools Add

FISH Interoperability Toolkit Edit

A suite of tools using the MIDAS Heritage metadata standard to facilitate the process of moving information between the wide variety of information systems used to record the historic environment.

Use Cases Add

English Heritage Listed Buildings System Edit

A case study of the use of the MIDAS XML Monument schema as a vehicle for storing data exported from a major heritage sector information system, the English Heritage Listed Building System (LBS).