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An XML schema for exchanging specimen and observation data from biological collections.

A poly-hierarchical classification system for categorizing computing research literature.

A JSON-LD vocabulary for representing social activities, powering ActivityPub and the fediverse.

A W3C protocol for decentralized social networking, enabling server-to-server federation across the fediverse.

Over 42,000 concepts spanning agriculture, fisheries, and food science in more than 42 languages.

Encodes the physical layout and recognized text of digitized document pages from OCR output.

The cataloguing rulebook that defined how English-speaking libraries described their collections.

Transforms scholarly content into self-describing, machine-actionable linked documents using HTML and JSON-LD.

A persistent identifier scheme for long-term access to information objects managed by memory institutions.

A multilingual thesaurus of over 55,000 concepts for art, architecture, and material culture.

Describes reusable interoperability assets like schemas, code lists, and data models across borders.

Embeds sky coordinates, observation details, and taxonomy directly into astronomical outreach images.

An XML-based web syndication format for publishing and consuming feeds of entries such as blog posts and news.

An XML schema for recording technical metadata about audio digital objects in preservation systems.

Metadata vocabularies for describing biodiversity-related multimedia resources and collections.

A Dublin Core profile that mandated metadata for Australian government services and information.

A file packaging convention using manifests and checksums for reliable digital content transfer.

Fourteen interlinked RDF ontologies powering linked data across BBC Sport, News, Music, and more.

A linked data vocabulary built around Work, Instance, and Item to replace MARC for library data.

An OWL ontology for modeling citations, documents, and scholarly references on the Semantic Web.

An OWL ontology for describing bibliographic references and their ordered collections within citing works.

Extends Schema.org with usage profiles for genes, proteins, datasets, and other life science resources.

An XML tag suite extending JATS to encode the full text and metadata of scientific books.

Tamper-evident content credentials that certify the provenance and edit history of digital media.

Rules and best practices for creating consistent, sharable descriptions of cultural works and images.