Scientific Data & Research
57 standards in this subject area
Access to Biological Collection Data
(ABCD)An XML schema for exchanging specimen and observation data from biological collections.
ACM Computing Classification System
(CCS)A poly-hierarchical classification system for categorizing computing research literature.
ANSI/NISO Z39.105-2023, Content Profile/Linked Document
(CP/LD)Transforms scholarly content into self-describing, machine-actionable linked documents using HTML and JSON-LD.
Astronomy Visualization Metadata
(AVM)Embeds sky coordinates, observation details, and taxonomy directly into astronomical outreach images.
Bibliographic Reference Ontology
(BiRO)An OWL ontology for describing bibliographic references and their ordered collections within citing works.
Bioschemas
Extends Schema.org with usage profiles for genes, proteins, datasets, and other life science resources.
Book Interchange Tag Suite
(BITS)An XML tag suite extending JATS to encode the full text and metadata of scientific books.
Cellosaurus
A comprehensive knowledge resource on cell lines, covering nomenclature, cross-references, and provenance.
Chemical Entities of Biological Interest
(ChEBI)An ontology classifying small chemical compounds by structure, role, and biological activity.
Citation File Format
(CFF)A YAML file format that lets developers embed citation metadata directly in code repositories.
Citation Style Language
(CSL)An open XML-based language for defining citation and bibliography formatting rules used by reference managers worldwide.
Citation Typing Ontology
(CiTO)An ontology that captures the rhetorical and factual reasons one publication cites another.
Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions
(CF Conventions)Metadata conventions that give NetCDF climate and geoscience variables well-defined meaning.
CodeMeta
A Schema.org-based vocabulary for describing research software across repositories and platforms.
Common European Research Information Format
(CERIF)Models the entities of scientific research for interchange between research information systems.
Contributor Roles Taxonomy
(CRediT)A taxonomy of fourteen roles capturing how each contributor participated in scholarly research.
Croissant Format Specification
A metadata format for describing, discovering, and programmatically loading machine learning datasets.
Crossref Metadata Schema
The XML schema publishers use to register DOIs and deposit bibliographic metadata with Crossref.
Darwin Core
(DwC)A shared vocabulary for recording and exchanging biodiversity observations, specimens, and taxa.
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 Quality Vocabulary
(DQV)Provides an RDF vocabulary for describing and assessing data quality dimensions, metrics, and certificates.
DataCite Metadata Schema
Core metadata properties for identifying and citing research datasets registered with DOIs.
DBpedia Ontology
(DBO)A cross-domain ontology derived from Wikipedia infoboxes, covering 768 classes and 3,000 properties.
