Metadata standards
This is a list of data formats for metadata. Some of these are strictly speaking data models that can be expressed in various interconnected convertible formats.
- Categories for the Description of Works of Art ( CDWA ) - Description of objects of art and culture; CDWA Lite is a formalized as an XML schema to use
- Data Documentation Initiative ( DDI ) standard for describing social science data
- Dublin Core description of documents and other objects in the Internet
- Encoded Archival Context (EAC ) - Description of provenances
- Encoded Archival Description ( EAD) - description of archival
- Exchangeable Image File Format ( Exif ) for additional technical information in image files from digital cameras
- FGDC ( Federal Geographic Data Committee ), ISO 19115 - Spatial Data
- ID3 tags provide information about the metadata of MP3 files
- IPTC - NAA standard - text information in image files
- LOM ( Learning Object Metadata ) - for descriptions of learning objects
- Lightweight Information Describing Objects - Harvestingformat to pass object data from museums
- MARC, MAB, MODS - Bibliothekarische exchange formats
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard ( METS )
- Meta - Object Facility (MOF)
- MPEG-7, MPEG -21
- NISO Metadata for Images in XML ( MIX) - additional technical information for image files
- ONIX - bibliographic data in producing and spreading bookshops
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) - syntactic W3C standard for describing Web resources
- VRA Core (Visual Resources Association ) - Visual objects (images, movies, objects ... )
- XBMF Exchange Binary Broadcast and Metadata Format
- Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP )
Metadata formats are usually closely related to a corresponding set of rules together, which determines how the individual data fields are to be used. Depending on the degree of formalization, some rules may also be part of the format, such as so-called ontologies in computer science.
- Data format
- Documentation