IRIS is a relational database for the management and descriptive cataloging of image assets of cultural materials, based on VRA Core Categories 4.0. IRIS manages acquisitions, production, cataloging, classification, and other workflow activities for multiple still image collections (e.g., digital images, slides and photographs). IRIS facilitates the creation of descriptive metadata for images of art, architecture and the built environment, visual culture, anthropology, archaeology, photography, urban planning and urban studies that are used to support teaching and learning in an academic setting |
IRIS is built on the data structure standard VRA Core 4.0 http://www.loc.gov/standards/ and CCO (Cataloging Cultural Objects) http://www.vrafoundation.org/ccoweb/index.htm VRA Core 4.0 was designed for data exchange; the XML expression of VRA Core 4.0 allows it to interoperate with other standards. CCO is a data content standard for the description of works (and images of) art, architecture and the built environment, visual media, and cultural materials.