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