This is the Common Schema for the MIDAS standard, part of the FISH suite of XML schemas for the historic environment. It is designed to hold groups and elements that are common to the other MIDAS schema. Element holds names and identifiers of of MIDAS entities. Repeat as required. Records human-readable name(s) of MIDAS entities. Records numeric or alpha-numeric identifier. Text descriptions, full and summary. A single element can have as many of these description pairs as required. Full description. Summary description. Note that a summary description cannot exist without a full description. i.e., the summary is a summary of an extant description, and not simply indicative of its length: if the only description you have is one sentence, then it belongs in the 'full' element. Contact information for a actor, resource, or service capability Collective name element. Mr, Dr, Mrs, etc. First name Last name/surname Other name(s) Organisation Name Role or roles of contact. Phone number(s) Fax number(s) Email(s) Element for internationally transferable postal references; its nodes are largely self explanatory. This is restricted to postal elements onl. Use the spatial schema for other named places outside of the address. Street address: "27 Jericho St", etc. City State, Province, Region or County Postcode or zipcode Country (i.e. 'UK', not 'England', 'Wales', 'NI' or 'Scotland') Copyright, access, reproduction and control rights. Copyright holder Copyright year(s) General, free text copyright info Documents who is allowed to use the data, and how Access grated to whom Access conditions statement Date access granted Date access revoked Statement regarding access rights Reproduction rights Reproduction statement Who to contact regarding reproduction Indicative fees for reproduction This element records the links for related MIDAS entities. This element records the ids for related events. The namespace attribute is required. This element records the ids for related monuments. The namespace attribute is required. This element records the ids for related references (the namespace attribute is required). Use this attribute to record the identifier used refer to this reference in the description or other textual element. Free text monument record descriptions usually cite references as [1], [2], etc., and this attribute is designed to capture that monument-specific identifier to maintain the link between the reference and the monument description. This element records the IDs for related objects/artefacts (the namespace attribute is required). Use this attribute to record the identifier used refer to this reference in the description or other textual element. Free text monument record descriptions usually cite references as [1], [2], etc., and this attribute is designed to capture that monument-specific identifier to maintain the link between the reference and the monument description. This element records the ids for related caswork info. The namespace attribute is required. This element records the ids for related Areas. The namespace attribute is required. This element records the ids for related Heritage Asset Management. The namespace attribute is required. This element records the ids for related Designation and Protections. The namespace attribute is required. This element records the ids for related Historical Events. The namespace attribute is required. This element records the ids for related Management Activity Documentation. The namespace attribute is required. This element records the ids for related Narrative and Synthesis. The namespace attribute is required. Element for recording information about this specific record. To avoid confusion: use the midas_meta schema re record information about an entire dataset. Use this element to record information specific to a single record. Information relating to the creation of this particular record (not this particular electronic incarnation, but the compilation date of the data). Date the record was created . Who created the record. Information relating to the last update of this particular record (not this particular electronic incarnation, but rather the last change to the data itself). When the the data were last updated. Who was last to update the data. The language of the intellectual content of an information source. Used with Information Source entries to identify the language of the content, or Location and Monument entry data to record the language of place names, and distinguish, for example, Welsh from English versions. Example: En-GB (for English spelling as used in Great Britain). Example: © HERITAGETEACH 2008 Records the Information Source Title.