Standards
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Metadata standards aid in findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (sound familiar?), and therefore can be useful to understand when you begin to use repositories, publish, collaborate, even if you are not using all of these yourself.
These are ontologies as well, just like the one you create to structure and format your own data. These aid in structuring the data about your data so you work can be searched and used.
Here are a few metadata standards to make you aware of what is out there:
ISO the International Standards Organization dictates standards across disciplines such as…
ISO 21127 Information and documentation reference ontology for the interchange of GLAMs
Related to this is CIDOC CRM a conceptual reference model for exchanging cultural heritage information
ISO 2709 Information and documentation format for information exchange; ISO/DTS 8621 Digital file format preservation; ISO/DIS 23527 Research activity identifier information technology for learning, education, training, and research (under development).
Descriptive metadata standards such as…
The Library of Congress Name Authority Files (LCNAF) for authoritative or institutionally agreed upon names for persons, organizations, events, places, and titles.
Getty Controlled Vocabularies for authoritative persons, geographic places, cultural objects, art and architecture.
VRA Core is a data standard for describing visual culture and digital images.
Dublin Core is a core metadata standard describing digital objects of all types.
The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), combines metadata elements to create a structure that more fully represents the management of digital objects.
Preservation metadata standards…
PREMIS is a Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, and the international standard for preserving the metadata of digital objects.
Let's Review!
Can you think of any more standards or ontologies related to your own field or research?