Cultural Heritage

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.

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

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

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.

Defines the underlying information structures for all Dublin Core metadata descriptions.

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.

Normalizes metadata from thousands of US libraries, archives, and museums into one searchable model.

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.

The European Broadcasting Union's metadata framework for audiovisual production and media archiving.

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

Aggregates cultural heritage metadata from thousands of European institutions into a unified model.

A syntax for expressing dates with uncertainty, approximation, and ranges beyond ISO 8601.

An ISO standard for embedding RDF-based metadata directly inside media files during content creation.

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.

Over 2.2 million place names with coordinates and hierarchies for cultural heritage cataloging.

A hierarchical classification of 28,000 subjects for indexing art and iconographic imagery.

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