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Advice 11: VERS Metadata Scheme

Table of Contents

1   Introduction

2   Record VEOs

3   Record Metadata
   3.1   Agent
   3.2   Rights Management
   3.3   Title
   3.4   Subject
   3.5   Description and Auxiliary Description
   3.6   Language
   3.7   Relation
   3.8   Coverage
   3.9   Function
   3.10   Date
   3.11   Type
   3.12   Aggregation Level
   3.13   Format
   3.14   Record Identifier
   3.15   Management History
   3.16   Use History
   3.17   Preservation History
   3.18   Location
   3.19   Disposal
   3.20   Mandate
   3.21   VEO Identifier
   3.22   Transaction

4   Documents and Encodings
   4.1   Document Metadata
   4.2   Encoding Metadata

5   File VEOs
   5.1   File
   5.2   File Metadata
   5.3   Date
   5.4   File Disposal

6   VEO Metadata

7   Signature Metadata

8   Modified VEO Metadata

9   Minimal VEOs
   9.1   Minimal Record VEO
   9.2   Minimal File VEO
   9.3   Minimal Modified VEO

10   References

Under section 12 of the Public Records Act 1973, the Keeper of Public Records is responsible for the establishment of standards for the efficient management of public records and for assisting public offices to apply those standards to records under their control. Officers in charge of public offices are responsible under section 13 of the Act for carrying out, with the advice and assistance of the Keeper, a program of records management in accordance with the standards established under section 12 of the Act.

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