Application Profile
A selection and constraint of elements from one or more schemas for a specific use case
13 standards
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.
Bioschemas
Extends Schema.org with usage profiles for genes, proteins, datasets, and other life science resources.
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.
DPLA Metadata Application Profile
(DPLA MAP)Normalizes metadata from thousands of US libraries, archives, and museums into one searchable model.
Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile
(DC Collections AP)A Dublin Core profile for describing collections of physical or digital resources at the aggregate level.
Dublin Core Library Application Profile
(DC-Lib)Constrains Dublin Core elements for library cataloguing needs like citations and holdings.
Europeana Data Model
(EDM)Aggregates cultural heritage metadata from thousands of European institutions into a unified model.
GeoDCAT-AP
(GeoDCAT-AP)Bridges geospatial metadata standards and open data catalogs across European data portals.
Linked Art
A developer-friendly JSON-LD profile for describing cultural heritage objects as linked data.
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic Information - Metadata
(NAP)Adapts ISO 19115 geospatial metadata for United States and Canadian data infrastructure needs.
OpenAIRE Guidelines
Defines how European research repositories expose metadata for open science harvesting and compliance.
