Standards

From SAM

This is a list of metadata standards and vocabularies that have relevance to research regarding metadata and science. It is not a complete list, and community members are encouraged to add to this list.

Contents 1 Metadata Standards 2 Vocabularies 2.1 Subject Headings 2.2 Thesauri 2.3 Taxonomies 2.4 Ontologies

Metadata Standards

Data exchange formats and communication protocols.

• Darwin Core
  • A simple exchange format for specimen and observation data.
• Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
  • An international effort to establish a standard for technical documentation describing social science data.
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
  • An open organization engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models.
  • Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile
• Ecological Metadata Language (EML)
  • EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by used in a modular and extensible manner to document ecological data. Each EML module is designed to describe one logical part of the total metadata that should be included with any ecological dataset.
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
• ISO 19115
• NASA Directory Interchange Format (DIF)
• OpenGIS Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard

Vocabularies

Subject Headings

Thesauri

• National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
  • Biocomplexity Thesaurus
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
  • The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing around 895,000 records, including around 1,115,000 names, place types, coordinates, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.

Taxonomies

• International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA)
  • Vocabularies in the Virtual Observatory, Version 1.16
    • UCD (Unified Content Descriptors)
      • list
      • documentation
  • VOResource: an XML Encoding Schema for Resource Metadata, Version 1.03

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonomic Network
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
  • Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

Ontologies

• Open Biomedical Ontologies
  • The OBO Foundry is a collaborative experiment involving developers of science-based ontologies who are establishing a set of principles for ontology development with the goal of creating a suite of orthogonal interoperable reference ontologies in the biomedical domain.

• OLS - Ontology Lookup Service
• National Center for Biomedical Ontology Bioportal 2.0