Exchange Format
A format primarily for data interchange (e.g. MARC21, OAI-PMH)
15 standards
Atom Syndication Format
(Atom)An XML-based web syndication format for publishing and consuming feeds of entries such as blog posts and news.
CycloneDX Bill of Materials Standard
(CycloneDX)A full-stack bill of materials standard covering software, hardware, SaaS, AI, and cryptography.
Electronic Product Code Information Services
(EPCIS)Captures what, where, when, and why as products move through supply chain business processes.
General Transit Feed Specification
(GTFS)The dominant open standard for publishing public transit schedules, routes, and real-time service information.
iCalendar
(iCal)The universal calendar data exchange format used by virtually all calendaring and scheduling applications.
ISO 25577 MarcXchange
(MarcXchange)An ISO standard XML format for the exchange of MARC-structured bibliographic records across systems.

MARC 21
(MARC 21)The dominant machine-readable format for exchanging bibliographic and authority data in libraries.

MARCXML: MARC 21 XML Schema
(MARCXML)A lossless XML representation of MARC 21 records for use in web and XML environments.
NewsML-G2
(NewsML-G2)The news industry's XML format for exchanging text, images, video, events, and sports data.

ONIX for Books
(ONIX)The book industry's standard XML format for exchanging product metadata between publishers and retailers.
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH)A lightweight harvesting protocol that lets repositories expose metadata through six simple HTTP verbs.

Really Simple Syndication
(RSS)An XML-based family of web feed formats for distributing frequently updated content like blog posts and podcasts.

Software Package Data Exchange
(SPDX)Communicates software bill of materials including licenses, components, and security references.

UNIMARC
(UNIMARC)An international MARC format enabling bibliographic data exchange across national library systems.
Web ARChive Format
(WARC)A container format for aggregating and preserving web crawl data including HTTP requests, responses, and metadata.
