List of metadata formats
This is a list of data formats for metadata . Strictly speaking, some of these are data models that can be expressed in various interconvertible formats.
- BibTeX - Bibliographies in LaTeX documents
- Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) - description of objects of art and culture; CDWA Lite is an application formalized as an XML schema for this purpose
- Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), standard for the description of social science data
- Dublin Core , description of documents and other objects on the Internet
- Encoded Archival Context (EAC) - description of provenances
- Encoded Archival Description (EAD) - Description of archival material
- Exchangeable Image File Format (Exif) for additional technical information in image files from digital cameras
- FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee), ISO 19115 - Geodata
- ID3 tags provide information about the metadata of MP3 files
- IPTC-IIM standard - text information in image files
- LOM (Learning Object Metadata) - for descriptions of learning objects
- Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO) - Harvesting format for the transfer of object data from museums
- MARC , MAB , MODS - librarian exchange formats
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
- Meta Object Facility (MOF)
- MPEG-7 , MPEG-21
- NISO Metadata for Images in XML (MIX) - additional technical information for image files
- ONIX - bibliographic data in the producing and distributing book trade
- PREMIS - Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategy - describes metadata for long-term archiving in archives.
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) - syntactic standard of the W3C for the description of web resources
- SDMX - Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange
- VRA Core (Visual Resources Association) - visual objects (pictures, films, objects ...)
- XBMF Exchange Binary Broadcast and Metadata Format
- Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
- ICY metadata of the ICECAST streaming server (aka radiotext)
Metadata formats are usually closely related to a corresponding set of rules that determine how the individual data fields are to be used. Depending on the degree of formalization, some rules can also be part of the format, for example in so-called ontologies in computer science .