Europeana Semantic Elements V3.4 XML Schema Version: 3.4 Date: 2011-03-31 Used to validate XML instances of Data Sets to be submitted to Europeana The following elements must be provided in the XML instances: europeana:provider europeana:dataProvider europeana:rights europeana:type europeana:isShownBy and/or europeana:isShownAt In addition: 1) If "europeana:type" is TEXT then a valid value for "dc:language" must be provided. 2) The XML instances must include "dc:title" or "dc:description" (i.e. cannot be both null). 3) The XML instances must provide, mandatory, values for one of the four elements: "dc:subject" or "dc:type" or "dc:coverage" or "dcterms:spatial". The values for the following elements must be valid URI: europeana:isShownBy europeana:isShownAt europeana:object europeana:rights The values for europeana:type element must be one of the following: TEXT IMAGE SOUND VIDEO 3D While DC elements can appear in a user preferred order, in the instances of documents, the Europena elements must appear after all DC elements and in the following order: europeana:unstored europeana:object europeana:provider europeana:type europeana:rights europeana:dataProvider europeana:isShownBy europeana:isShownAt The europeana:isShownBy and europeana:isShownAt elements may appear in any order (one of the two is mandatory) after the europeana:type element. The ESE v3.4 Schema doesn't accept the following elements (Europeana office is responsible for providing all these elements): europeana:country europeana:language europeana:uri europeana:usertag europeana:year europeana:previewNoDistribute Extra note on DC terms elements and ESE conformance: The XML schema checks for basic conformance to the "Europeana Semantic Elements specifications", document available at http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/provide-content. Note however that it is an extension of the DC terms schema and will therefore accept all DC terms - even those that are not importable into the portal. Please include in your metadata only the elements defined in the specification. Publisher: Europeana (http://www.europeana.eu) *** Comments, questions, and error reports should be sent to info@europeana.eu with subject line: XMLSchema *** Editor: Nicola Aloia