Type of Resource: Standard
Author: Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Title: MARC Standards
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.loc.gov/marc/
Subject: Standards, Descriptive cataloging--Rules, MARC formats
Description: The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form. MARC 21 bibliographic format is developed by the Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada after merging their respective national formats. It has become the format favored by other national libraries and by online bibliographic utilities and their end-users; is the format supported by the majority of library systems; and offers participation in an international bibliographic community following common standards, and the advantage of copy cataloguing at much reduced cost and with no need to maintain conversion programs
It can be used for catalogue teaching resource.
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Copyright: library of Congress
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-09-16
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Title: MARC 21 Authority Format
Location/Identifier: http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html
Subject: Authority files (Information retrieval)
Keyword: Description: The MARC 21 Format for Authority Data, Including Guidelines for Content Designation defines the codes and conventions (tags , indicators , subfield codes , and coded values) that identify the data elements in MARC authority records. This document is intended for the use of personnel involved in the creation and maintenance of authority records, as well as those involved in the design and maintenance of systems for the communication and processing of MARC records.
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Copyright: © Library of Congress
Access: Freely available
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-11-00
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: DCMI
Title: Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1: Reference Description
Location/Identifier: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
Subject: Dublin Core
Keyword: DC
Description: The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. Here an information resource is defined to be "anything that has identity". This is the definition used in Internet RFC 2396, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", by Tim Berners-Lee et al. There are no fundamental restrictions to the types of resources to which Dublin Core metadata can be assigned. Three formally endorsed versions exist of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, version 1.1: ISO Standard 15836-2003 (February 2003): http://www.niso.org/international/SC4/n515.pdf; NISO Standard Z39.85-2001 (September 2001): http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-85.pdf; CEN Workshop Agreement CWA 13874 (March 2000, no longer available). The current document has been brought into line with the ISO and NISO standards. The more comprehensive document "DCMI Metadata Terms" (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/) includes the latest and authoritative term declarations for the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1. For an overview and links to full specifications of all metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative please see:: http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/overview/.
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Copyright: © DCMI
Access: Freely available
Date of creation: 2003-06-02
Date of last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: ISBN Agency, International Administrator
Title: International Standard Book Numbering System (ISBN)
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.isbn.org/
Subject: International Standard Book Numbers, Information retrieval--Standards
Keyword: ISBN , machine-readable identification number
Description: The ISBN is a unique machine-readable identification number, which marks any book unmistakably. It is the US website make application for International Standard Book Number, International Standard Music Number, The Standard Address Number, and International Standard Recording Code.
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Copyright: © 2004 R.R. Bowker LLC
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
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Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: ISSN International Centre
Title: ISSN
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.issn.org/
Subject: International Standard Serial Numbers, Information retrieval--Standards
Keyword: ISSN
Description: The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is an eight-digit number which identifies periodical publications. More than one million ISSN numbers have so far been assigned. There are 54 documents in this site including basic pieces of information concerning the many facets of the ISSN registration process. ISSN and the ISO standards" describes the relation between ISSN and ISO, as well as the various standards used within the ISSN work field.
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Copyright: © unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: International DOI Foundation (IDF)
Title: Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.doi.org/
Subject: Information storage and retrieval systems--Standards
Keyword: DOI
Description: The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for identifying content objects in the digital environment. Standards are an important aspect of the DOI System and underlying components. NISO standards, ISO/IEC MPEG21 Standards, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC), and ISO TC46/SC9 Standards are discussed.
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Copyright: © International DOI Foundation
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-11-22
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: NISO
Title: NISO Standards
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.niso.org/standards/index.html
Subject: Information storage and retrieval systems--Standards
Keyword: NISO
Description: NISO has developed and approved 32 national standards; 8 standards are in the development pipeline. All NISO standards undergo a review and maintenance cycle. If a standard does not require revision it is reaffirmed. For example, "R2001" following Z39.2 indicates that Z39.2 was Reaffirmed in 2001. When a standard is revised it is balloted and approved by the NISO Members and the approval year is added to the designation. For example, ANSI/NISO Z39.7-1995 was last approved in 1995. Equivalent international standards are noted. ISO standards can be purchased in hardcopy or electronic form Techstreet.
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Copyright: © 2004 National Information Standards Organization
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-06-15
Format of Resource: text/html; application/pdf
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: NISO
Title: NISO Standards: ANSI/NISO Z39.19 -2003: Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.niso.org/standards/standard_detail.cfm?std_id=518
Subject: Information storage and retrieval systems--Standards
Keyword: Z39.19
Description: Z39.19 is the controlled vocabulary (thesaurus) standard for formulating descriptors, establishing relationships among terms, and presenting the information in print and on a screen. Included are thesaurus maintenance procedures and recommended features for thesaurus management systems. Extensive examples, suggestions for further reading, and a detailed index are included.
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Copyright: © 2004 NISO
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2001-11-15
Format of Resource: Application/pdf
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: Art Information Task Force
Title: Categories for the Description of Works of Art
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/
Subject: International Standard Bibliographic Description, Information retrieval standards
Keyword: CDWA, Content of art databases
Description: Categories for the Description of Works of Art is a product of the Art Information Task Force (AITF), which encouraged dialog between art historians, art information professionals, and information providers so that together they could develop guidelines for describing works of art, architecture, groups of objects, and visual and textual surrogates. Formed in the early 1990s, the task force was made up of representatives from the communities that provide and use art information: art historians, museum curators and registrars, visual resource professionals, art librarians, information managers, and technical specialists. The work of the AITF was funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust, with a two-year matching grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to the College Art Association (CAA). The Categories describe the content of art databases by articulating a conceptual framework for describing and accessing information about objects and images. They identify vocabulary resources and descriptive practices that will make information residing in diverse systems both more compatible and more accessible. They also provide a framework to which existing art information systems can be mapped and upon which new systems can be developed.
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Copyright: © 2000 JPGT
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of modification: 2000-09-20
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: CIMI
Title: CIMI XML Schema for SPECTRUM
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.cimi.org/wg/xml_spectrum/index.html
Subject: Museums Metadata
Keyword: XML schema
Description: CIMI Spectrum for the museum community is museum objects metadata. The maintenance of the standard has been taken over by mda, http://www.mda.org.uk/
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Copyright: ©2002 CIMI
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-12-17
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress and Society of American Archivists, Maintainers
Title: Encoded Archival Description: Official EAD Version 2002 WebSite
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.loc.gov/ead/
Subject: Document markup languages; archives
Keyword: EAD
Description: The EAD Document Type Definition (DTD) is a standard for encoding archival finding aids using Extensible Markup Language (XML). The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress (LC) in partnership with the Society of American Archivists. .
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Copyright: Library of Congress
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification:2004-08-12
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: Federal Information Center
Title: Global Information Locator Service
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.gils.net/index.html
Subject: Information storage and retrieval systems--Standards
Keyword: GILS; Information communities
Description: GILS is an open (now obsolete/being phased out) standard for searching basic information descriptions. Based on the ISO 23950 search standard, GILS includes the most commonly understood concepts by which people worldwide find information sources in libraries--concepts like Title, Author, Publisher, Date, and Place. A GILS locator record is a kind of souped-up version of your trusty library catalog record., and it offers a standard way to find information by its description--whether a specific document, an information service, a collection of information, or an entire organization. It was envisioned as a common standard to allow searchers to find information across institutions that may be separated by geography, charter, focus, or government and that's why it is sometimes called the Government Information Locator Service.
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Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
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Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: Learning Technologies Standards Committee (LTSC), IEEE
Title: WG12 – Learning Object Metadata (LOM)
Location/Identifier: URL: http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/index.html
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Learning object metadata, IEEE, RDF, ISO/IEC, XML
Description: The full name of the standard is: Standard for Information Technology --Education and Training Systems -- Learning Objects and Metadata. This standard will specify the syntax and semantics of Learning Object Metadata, defined as the attributes required to fully/adequately describe a Learning Object. Learning Objects are defined here as any entity, digital or non-digital, which can be used, re-used or referenced during technology supported learning. Examples of technology supported learning include computer-based training systems, interactive learning environments, intelligent computer-aided instruction systems, distance learning systems, and collaborative learning environments. Examples of Learning Objects include multimedia content,instructional content, learning objectives, instructional software and software tools, and persons, organizations, or events referenced during technology supported learning. The Learning Object Metadata standards will focus on the minimal set of attributes needed to allow these Learning Objects to be managed, located, and evaluated. The standards will accommodate the ability for locally extending the basic fields and entity types, and the fields can have a status of obligatory (must be present) or optional (maybe absent). Relevant attributes of Learning Objects to be described include type of object, author, owner, terms of distribution, and format. Where applicable, Learning Object Metadata may also include pedagogical attributes such as; teaching or interaction style, grade level, mastery level, and prerequisites. It is possible for any given Learning Object to have more than one set of Learning Object Metadata. The standard will support security,privacy, commerce, and evaluation, but only to the extent that metadata fields will be provided for specifying descriptive tokens related to these areas; the standard will NOT concern itself with how these features are implemented. We expect these standards will conform to, integrate with,or reference existing open standards and existing work in related areas.For example core Attributes of Learning Objects will be coordinated with or may simply defer to, the efforts to standardize content objects in general. The fully approvd draft standard is at http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/files/LOM_1484_12_1_v1_Final_Draft.pdf.
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Copyright: © 2004 IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html ; application/pdf
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: None
Title: ISBD (G) General International Standard Bibliographic Description
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbdg.htm
Subject: Standards, International Standard Bibliographic Description for Computer Files
Keyword: AACR2R
Description: The general international standard bibliographic description is incorporated into AACR2R. The ISBD (ER) is revised from the ISBD (CF): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Computer Files. It includes an index and five appendices. Appendix A offers a prescription for the special technique of multi-level description. Appendix B provides a brief sketch of the way in which data should be transcribed when partly in a script reading from right to left and partly in a script reading from left to right. Appendix C lists the recommended general material designation, resource designations and specific material designations with their definitions. Appendix D gives recommended abbreviations for use in English-language records. Appendix E conveys the examples formulated to offer an illustration of the result of applying ISBD stipulations in all areas of a record.
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Copyright: © 1995-1999 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2000-12-14
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: TEI Consortium
Title: Text Encoding Initiative
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.tei-c.org/
Subject: Document markup
Keyword: TEI
Description: an international and interdisciplinary standard helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars representing all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent.
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Copyright: © TEI Consortium 2003
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: 2001-08-15
Date of last modification: 2003-09-06
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Standard
Author: Henny Bekker, Ivana Belgers,and Peter Valkenburg
Title: Inventory of Metadata of Multimedia
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.surfnet.nl/innovatie/surfworks/doc/mmmetadata/
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: transportation model standards, MediaSite, XM, MOODS, Virage, Phronesis, Olive, IBM Digital library, ABC, DC, RIB, VIggie
Description: This document is an inventory of current standards, emerging standards, and some products serving as examples of current implementations in the area of metadata for multimedia. It is not meant to be a complete treatise on the area of metadata, but rather serves as a report on the current state of standards and implementations in the area of metadata for, in particular, streaming media. A primary application of this inventory lies in the GigaPort Video-over-IP (VIP-) project, to which SURFnet contributes under the SURFworks project. In VIP one of the work packages, WP1, is Media Management. This work package deals with the generic services necessary for the management of the multimedia material, including the design of the entire architecture. As input to this work package this inventory was made of the tools and emerging standards that can be used to describe a model for metadata information of multimedia data in VIP.
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Copyright: © 2004 National Information Standards Organization
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Standard
Author:
Title: Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.w3.org/XML/
Subject: Metadata
Keyword:
Description: “Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. This page describes the work being done at W3C within the XML Activity, and how it is structured. Work at W3C takes place in Working Groups. The Working Groups within the XML Activity are listed below, together with links to their individual web pages. You can find and download formal technical specifications here, because we publish them. This is not a place to find tutorials, products, courses, books or other XML-related information. There are some links below that may help you find such resources.”
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Copyright: © 1996-2003 W3C
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modififacation: 2005-05-07
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects