MIDAS Heritage – the UK Historic Environment Data Standard is a British cultural heritage standard for recording information on buildings, archaeological sites, shipwrecks, parks and gardens, battlefields, areas of interest and artefacts.

It is designed to be used in conjunction with separate standards covering specific types of applications or projects, which will give the necessary data elements.

[8] Examples include SPECTRUM (artefacts), UK Gemini Discovery Metadata Standard (GIS), CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (concepts and relationships),[9] and Informing the Future of the Past: Guidelines for Historic Environment Records’’.

[10] MIDAS Heritage complies with the UK e-Government Metadata Standard (e-GMS),[11] which is based on Dublin Core.

The standard aims only to provide a common information framework and does not cover: what software or file format to use; what to call fields and tables in a database and how they are designed; what indexing terms to use; how to record archives and museum collections, or how to redesign an existing information system.