| Access to biological collection data (ABCD) |
Darwin Core Task Group |
2006 |
Biodiversity Information Standards Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) |
Biodiversity; Specimen collections |
| AES57-2011, AES Standard for Audio Metadata, Audio Object XML Schema |
Audio Engineering Society |
2011 |
Audio Engineering Society |
Audio, sound |
| audioMD and videoMD |
Library of Congress |
2003 |
Library of Congress |
Audio, Video |
| Australian Government email metadata standard (AGEMS) |
Chief Information Officer Committee |
2005 |
National Archives of Australia |
Email; Government |
| CanCore Learning Resource Metadata Initiative |
|
2006 |
|
learning objects; education |
| Categories for the description of works of art (CDWA) |
P. Harpring |
2014 |
J. Paul Getty Trust |
Art works |
| Content standard for digital geospatial metadata |
|
1998 |
U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee |
Geography; Geospatial characteristics |
| copyrightMD |
|
2004 |
California Digital Library (CDL) Rights Management Group |
rights management |
| Core Metadata Elements |
|
2014 |
Core Metadata Elements: An International Metadata Standard for Geographic Information (ISO 19115) |
|
| Crystallographic information framework (CIF) |
International Union of Crystallography Working Party on Crystallographic Information |
2002 |
International Union of Crystallography |
Crystallography |
| Darwin core |
Darwin Core Task Group |
2013 |
Biodiversity Information Standards Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) |
Biodiversity |
| Data documentation initiative (DDI) |
|
2009 |
DDI Alliance |
Behavioural sciences; Research; Social sciences; Survey instruments |
| AES60-2011, AES Standard for Audio Metadata - Core Audio Metadata XML Schema |
Audio Engineering Society |
2011 |
Audio Engineering Society |
Audio,sound |
| Data model for astronomical dataset characterisation |
|
2008 |
International Virtual Observatory Alliance |
Astronomy; Astrophysics |
| DataCite metadata schema |
|
2011 |
DataCite |
Research |
| DC Images Application Profile |
|
|
JISC Digital Repositories programme. |
images |
| DC-Gov: DCMI Government Application Profile |
|
2001 |
DCMI |
e-government |
| Directory interchange format (DIF) |
|
2004 |
NASA Global Change Master Directory |
Earth sciences; Geography |
| Dublin Core Collections Application Profile |
|
2007 |
Dublin Core Collection Description Task Group |
colelction |
| Dublin Core metadata element set |
Dublin Core Metadada Initiative (DCMI) |
2009 |
|
Documentation |
| EBU core metadata set (EBUcORE) |
|
2014 |
European Broadcasting Union |
Audio; Broadcasting; Music; Video |
| Ecological Metadata Language (EML) |
|
|
The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) |
ecology |
| EdNA metadata standard |
|
2000 |
Education Services Australia |
Education |
| AGLS metadata standard |
|
2010 |
National Archives of Australia |
Administration; Government; Public records |
| e-GMS e-Government metadata standard |
LAWs Project Information Architecture & Standards |
2004 |
U.K. Office of the e-Envoy |
Administration; Government; Public records |
| Electronic Theses and Dissertations Metadata Standard (ETD-MS) |
|
2010 |
NDLTD |
thesis; dissertation |
| Fisheries metadata element set (FiMES) |
|
|
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Fisheries and Aquaculture Department |
Fisheries |
| Friend of a Friend (FOAF) |
Dan Brickley; Libby Miller |
2000 |
|
people; computers |
| Government information locator service (GILS) |
|
1994 |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Administration; Government; Public records |
| Government of Canada records management metadata standard |
Government On-Line Metadata Working Group - Records Management Sub-Group |
2006 |
Library and Archives Canada |
Public records; Records management |
| ID3 |
|
|
|
Music; mp3 |
| IEEE standard for learning object metadata |
|
2002 |
IEEE |
Education; Learning objects |
| Information artifact ontology |
Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI) Project |
2011 |
Google Code |
Biology; Medicine |
| International guidelines for museum object information |
|
1995 |
International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums |
Cultural objects; Museums |
| AGRIS application profile for the International Information System on Agricultural Sciences and Technology guidelines on best practices for information object description |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Library and Documentation Systems Division |
2005 |
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations |
Agriculture |
| IPTC photo metadata standard |
|
2014 |
International Press Telecommunications Council |
News; Photographs; Photojournalism |
| ISAD(G): General international standard archival description |
ICA Ad Hoc Commission on Descriptive Standards |
2000 |
International Council on Archives |
Archives |
| ISA-Tab |
|
2008 |
ISAcommons |
Experiments; Genomics; Metabolomics; Proteomics; Transcriptomics |
| IsraCore |
|
|
Inter-University Computation Center (IUCC) |
Education; Learning objects |
| MADS: Metadata Authority Description Schema |
|
2004 |
Library of Congress |
authority data |
| MIDAS heritage |
Forum on Information Standards in Heritage (FISH) |
2012 |
English Heritage |
Heritage assets; Historic environment; History |
| MIX: metadata for images in XML schema |
|
|
Library of Congress |
images |
| MODS: Metadata Object Description Schema |
Library of Congress |
2002 |
Library of Congress |
Bibliographic resources |
| Music ontology specification |
Y. Raimond |
2012 |
|
Music |
| Music ontology: Musicontology |
|
|
|
Music |
| AGRkMS: Australian Government Recordkeeping Metadata Standard |
National Archives of Australia) |
2015 |
National Archives of Australia) |
Recordkeeping |
| MusicBrainz schema |
|
|
MusicBrainz |
music |
| National Library of Medicine (NLM) Metadata Schema |
|
2004 |
NLM |
medicine |
| NewsML G2 |
|
2014 |
International Press Telecommunication Council |
Multimedia; News; Telecommunication |
| ONIX for books |
|
2009 |
EDItEUR |
Books; Book supply |
| ONIX for price catalog (ONIX-PC) |
|
2012 |
EDItEUR |
Subscription products |
| ONIX for serials |
|
2011 |
EDItEUR |
Periodicals; Subscription products |
| Ordered list ontology |
S. Abdallah |
2010 |
|
Lists |
| PBCore |
Public Broadcasting in the United States |
2011 |
Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
Audiovisual media; Broadcasting |
| PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata |
|
2015 |
Library of Congress |
preservation |
| Programmes ontology |
Y. Raimond |
2009 |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
Broadcasting; Radio programs; Television programs |
| AND (Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT), the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE), and NASA's Joined Digital Library) |
|
2005 |
Digital Library for Earth System Education |
Earth sciences |
| Publishing requirements for industry standard metadata (PRISM) |
PRISM Working Group |
2012 |
IDEAlliance |
Content; Publishing; Resources |
| RDA (Resource description and access) element sets |
Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA |
2012 |
Open Metadata Registry |
Bibliographic resources |
| RSS 2.0 specification |
D. Winer |
2002 |
Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society |
Content syndication; Websites |
| SCORM metadata structure |
Advanced Distributed Learning |
2004 |
Rustici Software |
e-learning; Learning management systems; Learning objects |
| SEACOOS data dictionary |
S. Haines |
2004 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Department of Marine Sciences |
Climate; Oceans |
| SEPIADES: Recommendations for cataloguing photographic collections |
K. Aasbø |
2003 |
European Commission on Preservation and Access |
Photographs |
| SPASE (meta)data model |
SPASE Consortium |
2014 |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Heliospheric Physics Laboratory |
Heliophysics; Space physics; Sun |
| SPECTRUM: The UK museum documentation standard |
|
2011 |
Collections Trust |
Cultural objects; Museums |
| TEI guidelines for electronic text encoding and interchange |
|
2007 |
TEI Consortium |
Digital resources; Documentation; Humanities; Texts; Social sciences |
| U.S. GLOBEC data thesaurus |
U.S. GLOBEC Program |
2007 |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Oceans |
| ANZ–LOM metadata application profile |
|
2014 |
Education Services Australia |
Education; Learning objects |
| UK LOM core |
L. M. Campbell |
2004 |
Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards |
Education; Learning objects |
| VET metadata application profile (Vetadata) |
|
2005 |
Australian Department of Education; Employment and Workplace Relations |
Learning objects; Training; Vocational education |
| VRA core |
Visual Resources Association Data Standards Committee |
2007 |
U.S. Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office |
Images; Visual arts; Visual culture |
| VSO Data Model |
|
2007 |
Virtual Solar Observatory |
solar data; astronomy |
| WAVE file embedded metadata |
Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Working Group |
2012 |
Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Working Group |
auido, sound |
| XOBIS: XML Organic Bibliographic Information Schema |
D. R. Millet et al |
1998 |
Stanford University |
Bibliographic resources |
| ANZLIC metadata profile |
|
2007 |
ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council |
Geography; Geospatial characteristics; Land use |
| Astronomy visualization metadata standard (AVM) |
|
2008 |
Virtual Astronomy Multimedia Project (VAMP) |
Astronomy |