Metadata Standards
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Flexible basic 15-element data set - Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Standard for encoding metadata within a digital library - Metadata Objects Description Schema (MODS)
Schema for a bibliographic element set - Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Maintains standard for representation of text in digital form - IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard (CougarNet credentials)
Metadata for "learning objects" - objects used in technology supported learning. There are also discipline-specific metadata standards. Examples:- Access to Biological Collection Data (ABCD)
- Geospatial Metadata Standards, from the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
- Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), an effort to create international data description standards in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences
- Metadata initiatives, from the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
- Visual Resources Association (VRA) Core
Standards for description of works of visual culture and the images that document them