Libraries & Library Science

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 open XML-based language for defining citation and bibliography formatting rules used by reference managers worldwide.

An ontology that captures the rhetorical and factual reasons one publication cites another.

A human-readable query language for information retrieval systems, used with SRU and library search protocols.

A taxonomy of fourteen roles capturing how each contributor participated in scholarly research.

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

The international standard for measuring and comparing usage statistics of electronic resources.

The XML schema publishers use to register DOIs and deposit bibliographic metadata with Crossref.

Core metadata properties for identifying and citing research datasets registered with DOIs.

Lets metadata designers define application profiles as simple CSV tables with shapes and constraints.

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