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Latimer Core Guidance Documentation

Version	Date	Contributors	Status
0.1	2022-02-10	Matt Woodburn, Jutta Buschbom, Sarah Vincent, Kate Webbink, Maarten Trekels, Janeen Jones, Sharon Grant	Draft

1. Introduction to Latimer Core documentation

NON-NORMATIVE SUMMARY: The Latimer Core (LtC) is designed to represent metadata for groups of items (i.e., collections), individual objects within which can be represented through other emerging or current standards (e.g., Darwin Core and Dublin Core). The classes and properties (collectively terms) aim to represent information that describes these groupings in enough detail to inform deeper discovery of the resources contained within them. Many LtC terms are borrowed or derived from those standards which are used to describe individual items. As far as possible the terms included in the standard should not preclude their use across domains.

NORMATIVE SUMMARY: The Latimer Core (LtC) schema is a standard designed to support the representation, discovery and communication of natural science collections. The classes within the standard aim to allow a high-level representation of any given collection by providing a framework within which the set of defining characteristics shared by objects in the collection can be described. The creation of collection-level records is intended to promote visibility and use of items in collections.

• 1.1 Latimer Core Glossary

2. Latimer Core standard and model concepts

• 2.1 Audiences

• 2.2 Collection description schemes

• 2.3 Summary of LtC classes

• 2.4 Core elements of the standard

• 2.5 Ranges and class-level properties

• 2.6 Repeatable properties and classes

• 2.7 Linking ObjectGroups

• 2.8 Modelling approaches

3. Relationships with other standards

4. Extending the standard

5. Reference examples and implementations

6. Use Cases