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Standards Framework Report #2

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Section 3 - Scope

The metadata standardisation initiatives that are analysed in this Standards Framework Report are summarised in the table below.

Category

Short name

Full Name

Models

   
 

IFLA FRBR model

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

 

CIDOC CRM

CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model

 

<indecs>

Interoperability of data in e-commerce systems

 

OAIS

Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System

Basic

   
 

ISO 11179

Data management and Interchange

 

RDF

Resource Description Framework

Cross-domain

   
 

Dublin Core

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

Domain-specific

   

Publishing

   
 

ONIX

Online Information eXchange

 

DOI

Digital Object Identifier

 

EBX

Electronic book exchange

Audio-visual

   
 

MPEG

Moving Pictures Expert Group: Digital Audio-visual Framework

 

SMPTE

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Cultural Heritage

   
 

MARC 21

Machine Readable Cataloguing

 

EAD

Encoded Archival Description

 

SPECTRUM

UK Museum Documentation Standard

Education

   
 

IMS

Instructional Management System

 

IEEE/LOM

Learning Object Metadata

Research, academic

   
 

CERIF

Common European Research Information Format

 

TEI

Text Encoding Initiative

Government, geospatial, environment

   
 

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

 

GILS

Global Information Locator Service

 

GELOS

Global Environmental Locator System Standard Element Set

This report analyses these 22 metadata standardisation initiatives. Although this is a limited number, we believe it will provide a good insight into what is currently happening.

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