Web & Linked Data
95 standards in this subject area
Activity Streams 2.0
(AS2)A JSON-LD vocabulary for representing social activities, powering ActivityPub and the fediverse.

ActivityPub
A W3C protocol for decentralized social networking, enabling server-to-server federation across the fediverse.
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.
Asset Description Metadata Schema
(ADMS)Describes reusable interoperability assets like schemas, code lists, and data models across borders.

Atom Syndication Format
(Atom)An XML-based web syndication format for publishing and consuming feeds of entries such as blog posts and news.
BBC Ontologies
Fourteen interlinked RDF ontologies powering linked data across BBC Sport, News, Music, and more.

BIBFRAME (Bibliographic Framework Initiative)
(BIBFRAME)A linked data vocabulary built around Work, Instance, and Item to replace MARC for library data.

Bibliographic Ontology
(BIBO)An OWL ontology for modeling citations, documents, and scholarly references on the Semantic Web.
C2PA Content Credentials
(C2PA)Tamper-evident content credentials that certify the provenance and edit history of digital media.
Citation Typing Ontology
(CiTO)An ontology that captures the rhetorical and factual reasons one publication cites another.

CodeMeta
A Schema.org-based vocabulary for describing research software across repositories and platforms.
Contextual Query Language
(CQL)A human-readable query language for information retrieval systems, used with SRU and library search protocols.
Croissant Format Specification
A metadata format for describing, discovering, and programmatically loading machine learning datasets.
CSV on the Web
(CSVW)A W3C standard for annotating CSV files with datatypes, relationships, and conversion rules.
CycloneDX Bill of Materials Standard
(CycloneDX)A full-stack bill of materials standard covering software, hardware, SaaS, AI, and cryptography.
Data Catalog Vocabulary
(DCAT)A W3C vocabulary for describing datasets and data services in federated catalogs on the web.
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.
Data Quality Vocabulary
(DQV)Provides an RDF vocabulary for describing and assessing data quality dimensions, metrics, and certificates.
DBpedia Ontology
(DBO)A cross-domain ontology derived from Wikipedia infoboxes, covering 768 classes and 3,000 properties.

DC Tabular Application Profiles
(DC TAP)Lets metadata designers define application profiles as simple CSV tables with shapes and constraints.
DCAT Application Profile for Data Portals in Europe
(DCAT-AP)A European application profile that standardizes dataset descriptions across government data portals.

DCMI Abstract Model
(DCAM)Defines the underlying information structures for all Dublin Core metadata descriptions.
DCMI Metadata Terms
(DCT)The full set of properties, classes, and encoding schemes maintained by the Dublin Core community.
DCMI Type Vocabulary
Twelve broad classes for categorizing the nature or genre of a resource, from Dataset to Text.