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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
1.0	2022-06-10	Matt Woodburn, Jutta Buschbom, Sarah Vincent, Kate Webbink, Maarten Trekels, Janeen Jones, Sharon Grant	Initial release

1. Introduction to Latimer Core documentation

This wiki is intended to support the normative definitions by providing further information on the terms and concepts represented in the Latimer Core (LtC) standard, and guidance on how the standard may be used in practice. The wiki content is non-normative (i.e., not part of the formal standard) and so may be modified, improved and extended over time.

Summary of the standard

The Latimer Core (LtC) schema is a standard designed to support the representation, discovery and communication of natural science collections, by representing metadata for the groups of objects that those collections and their subcomponents encompass. Individual objects within those groups 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.

• 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