Government & Public Sector
19 standards in this subject area
Asset Description Metadata Schema
(ADMS)Describes reusable interoperability assets like schemas, code lists, and data models across borders.

Australian Government Locator Service
(AGLS)A Dublin Core profile that mandated metadata for Australian government services and information.

Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
(CSDGM)The US federal standard for documenting geospatial data, mandated for all federal agency datasets.

CSV on the Web
(CSVW)A W3C standard for annotating CSV files with datatypes, relationships, and conversion rules.
Data Catalog Vocabulary
(DCAT)A W3C vocabulary for describing datasets and data services in federated catalogs on the web.
Data Documentation Initiative
(DDI)Documents surveys, questionnaires, and statistical data across the full research data lifecycle.

Data Package
Lightweight JSON-based specifications for packaging, describing, and validating tabular datasets.
Data Privacy Vocabulary
(DPV)Provides structured concepts for describing personal data processing, privacy rights, and legal bases.
DCAT Application Profile for Data Portals in Europe
(DCAT-AP)A European application profile that standardizes dataset descriptions across government data portals.

DCMI Government Application Profile
(DC-Gov)A Dublin Core profile adding security, access rights, and legislative tracking for government records.
European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations
(ESCO)Maps 3,000 occupations and 13,000 skills across 28 languages for the European labour market.
EuroVoc
(EuroVoc)Multilingual thesaurus covering all EU policy areas in 24 official languages and beyond.

General Transit Feed Specification
(GTFS)The dominant open standard for publishing public transit schedules, routes, and real-time service information.
GeoDCAT-AP
(GeoDCAT-AP)Bridges geospatial metadata standards and open data catalogs across European data portals.

ISO 19115 Geographic Information -- Metadata
(ISO 19115)The foundational international schema for describing geographic datasets and spatial services.

North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic Information - Metadata
(NAP)Adapts ISO 19115 geospatial metadata for United States and Canadian data infrastructure needs.

RDF Data Cube Vocabulary
Publishes multi-dimensional statistical and aggregate data as linked data using RDF and SDMX concepts.
The Organization Ontology
(ORG)A core ontology for publishing organizational structures, membership, and hierarchy as linked data.
United Nations Standard Products and Services Code
(UNSPSC)A hierarchical eight-digit coding system for classifying products and services in global procurement.