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Metadata Standards


  • Flexible basic 15-element data set

  • Standard for encoding metadata within a digital library

  • Schema for a bibliographic element set

  • Maintains standard for representation of text in digital form
  • (CougarNet credentials)
    Metadata for "learning objects" - objects used in technology supported learning. There are also discipline-specific metadata standards. Examples:
    • , from the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
    • , an effort to create international data description standards in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences
    • Metadata initiatives, from the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)

  • Standards for description of works of visual culture and the images that document them