Archives & Records Management

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

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.

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

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

A framework of 540 categories for describing works of art, architecture, and material culture.

An ISO-standard ontology for integrating cultural heritage data across museums, libraries, and archives.

An XML schema for encoding copyright status and rights information within digital library objects.

The full set of properties, classes, and encoding schemes maintained by the Dublin Core community.

Twelve broad classes for categorizing the nature or genre of a resource, from Dataset to Text.

Content rules for describing archival materials and authority records in the United States.

A Dublin Core profile for describing collections of physical or digital resources at the aggregate level.

Fifteen core properties for describing any resource, from title and creator to date and format.

Encodes archival authority records for the corporate bodies, persons, and families behind collections.

The XML standard for encoding hierarchical archival finding aids and publishing them on the web.

A suite of over 20 thesauri for recording archaeological and built heritage in the British Isles.

Provides 26 elements for multilevel archival description, from fonds down to individual items.

Open APIs for delivering, annotating, and sharing high-quality digital images across institutions.

Defines authority records for the people, families, and organizations that create archives.

Over eight million authority records for the names of persons, organizations, and titles.

The dominant machine-readable format for exchanging bibliographic and authority data in libraries.

An XML and RDF schema for authority records describing people, organizations, and subjects.

An XML container for packaging structural, descriptive, and administrative metadata for digital objects.

A readable XML alternative to MARC 21 for bibliographic description in digital libraries.

A reference model defining the functions and information flows needed for long-term digital preservation.