Metadata Standards Index
A comprehensive reference of metadata standards, vocabularies, schemas, and specifications used across libraries, cultural heritage, research, and the web.
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The world's largest general-purpose subject heading system, maintained continuously since 1898.
Core metadata properties for identifying and citing research datasets registered with DOIs.
A multilingual subject vocabulary spanning education, culture, and science in five languages.
A linked data vocabulary built around Work, Instance, and Item to replace MARC for library data.
Provides structured concepts for describing personal data processing, privacy rights, and legal bases.
Cataloguing instructions for describing library resources and their relationships in a linked data world.
The global standard for classifying diseases and causes of death, used by over 130 countries.
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ARK Alliance
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SPAR Ontologies
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
CSL Community
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International DOI Foundation