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Standards Framework Report #2
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Section 4 - Description of the results
The general domains (e.g. non-specific domains) were produced first, before presenting the other initiatives (e.g. specific domains). We have categorised the 22 standardisation initiatives into the following categories:
Models
The models are not standardisation activities as such; rather more they describe models for metadata management. IFLA, CIDOC, <indecs> and OAIS belong to this category.
Basic standards
The category of basic standards contains standardisation activities that provide the groundwork for other standards. ISO 11179 and, RDF are part of this basic category.
Cross-domain standards
As the only cross-domain standard, Dublin Core is the only representative in this category.
Domain-specific standards
Publishing
This domain covers the music/video/book and multimedia distribution, the music recording industry, scientific journals, news agencies, newspapers and copyright management. ONIX, DOI and EBX have been categorised under publishing.
Audio-visual
The audio-visual category includes the film industry, the broadcast production and archiving as well as the multimedia production. It deals with large amounts of information of which only a portion is textual. In addition, the means by which this content is distributed varies greatly, i.e. terrestrial broadcast, Internet and, CD and DVDROM. MPEG-7 and SMPTE are in this group.
Cultural heritage
Standards for use by libraries, library services, archives, museums and museum portals have been grouped under this heading: MARC21, EAD, SPECTRUM.
Education
Initiatives active in the field of interactive courseware, life-long learning, distance learning, curricula and, schools in general can be found in this category. The IMS project and IEEE LOM were grouped in this domain.
Research and academic
This domain includes non-commercial laboratories, corporate research, and professional societies. CERIF and TEI have been included under this heading.
Government, geospatial and environment
This domain includes all kinds of standards related to public services. GILS addresses governmental publication issues and was thus put in this domain. An important sector of public information is geospatial information. FGDC is an important standard in this field. Also environmental information is addressed under this title. GELOS covers the environment category.
Graphically the categorisation into domains can be pictured as follows:
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