Metadata Standards¶

Blog post by S. Hodson¶

See also this spreadsheet

Scientific metadata¶

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative - DCMI¶

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, or "DCMI", is an open organization supporting innovation in metadata design and best practices across the metadata ecology. DCMI's activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, global conferences, meetings and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and best practices.

• DCMI Metadata Terms

• Classic Dublin Core Metadata Element set

• Dublin Core Application Profiles

See also ANSI standard for Dublin Core (below).

Library Of Congress¶

• Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard - METS

The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.

• Metadata Object Description Schema - MODS

Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) is a schema for a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, and particularly for library applications.

Extensible Metadata Platform - XMP¶

Recommended standard for embedding Creative Commons licenses in documents.

IMS Global Learning Consortium¶

Various standards for metadata and packaging

• Learning Resource Meta-data Specification

• Content Packaging Specification

Audio Engineering Society - AES¶

• AES-R9-2008 : AES standards project report - Considerations for standardising AES metadata sets

• AES57-2011 : AES standard for audio metadata - Audio object structures for preservation and restoration

• AES60-2011 : AES standard for audio metadata - Core audio metadata

ANSI / NISO¶

• ANSI/NISO Z39.85 - 2007 The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

• ANSI/NISO Z39.87 - 2006 (R2011) Data Dictionary - Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images