Metadata Standards Updates (2020s) & Resources
New & Notable developments
- ADMS (Asset Description Metadata Schema) Vocabulary (ADMS 2.0), 2024-02-01
- First Webinar on ADMS event, 2023-04-25, with Slides || Meeting minutes || Recording
- Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - Version 3, W3C Working Draft- W3C Editor, 2024-10-07
- Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) Version 2.0, Final Community Group Report 2024-08-01
- Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences.
- "Introduction to the DDI Metadata Standard" [DCMI Webinar, 2021-04-21]
- Current DDI Products: DDI Codebook; DDI Lifecycle; Controlled Vocabularies; XKOS; SDTL: Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL)
- EPUB 3.3 W3C Recommendation. 2023-05-25
- MPEG Standards & Exploration, a full overview over all standards developed by MPEG, the Moving Picture Experts Group.
- MPAI (Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence) Artificial Intelligence Framework (MPAI-AIF)
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial intelligence -- A list of standards/or projects (67 Published & Under development)
- ISO 21127:2023 Information and documentation -- A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information [previous ISO 21127:2014]. It corresponds to that of CIDOC CRM community CIDOC-CRM version 7.1.3 [Ref: CIDOC CRM News 2024-02-26]
- NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions Version 1.9, 2021-09-10
- NISO Z39.105-2023, Content Profile/Linked Document, 2023-12-12
- W3C Accessibility Standards Overview || All Standards and Drafts Updated 2024-10-09
- W3C Strings on the Web: Language and Direction Metadata, W3C Group Draft Note 2024-07-18
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, W3C Recommendation, 2023-10-05
Current standards
1 Metadata for General Purposes
- Dublin Core
- Specifications
- DCMI Metadata Terms, updated 2020-01
- LRMI Terms (RDF) 2022-06-14, Learning Resource Metadata Innovation (LRMI)
- DC Tabular Application Profiles (DC TAP) draft specification, 2021-04
- "DCMI Today" [video, DCMI-2021]
- Schema.org
- Schemas, current version
- Releases - summary
- BIBFRAME
- Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
- MODS 3.8 Schema (2022-09-16)
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
- METS Version 1.12.1, 2019-10.
- IFLA Standards - Linked open data versions
2 Metadata for Cultural Objects and Visual Resources
- CDWA (Categories for the Description of Works of Art)
- CDWA, revised 2022
- CDWA Lite 1.1, revised March 2023
- Crosswalk of CDWA with other Standards, revised 2024, covering 15 standards mapped
- LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects)
- LIDO 1.1, released 2021-12. Prepared for CIDOC LIDO Working Group by LIDO-DE Working Group.
- Linked Art Data Model, a profile of CIDOC-CRM.
- VRA Core
- VRA Core 4.0
- VRA Core 4.0 Chinese Translations [anounced 2022-08-23]
- Available for downloading from https://www.loc.gov/standards/vracore/schemas.html
- Chinese - Simplified (last updated 2022-08-15)
- Chinese - Traditional (last updated 2022-08-15)
- VRA Core 5.0 (in development)
- Object ID
3 Metadata for Research Data
- Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT)
- Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - Version 3, W3C Recommendation August 2024
- "Introduction to the W3C Data Catalog Ontology (DCAT)" [DCMI Webinar, 2020-11-12]
- Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - Version 3, W3C Working Draft- W3C Editor, 2024
- Darwin Core
- Darwin Core Standards
- Darwin Core quick reference guide, 2023-09
- Simple Darwin Core, 2023-09
- Generic Earth Observation Metadata Standard (GEOMS)
- GEOMS v1.0, 2011-03
- NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) Clearinghouse (ECHO) metadata model.
- DataCite Metadata Schema
- DataCite Metadata Schema v4.4, 2021-03
4 Metadata for Archives, Preservation, Provenance
- Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
- EAD3 current
- EAC-CPF Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families, Draft Schema Version 2.0 (2021-03)
- PREMIS (for Preservation Metadata)
- PREMIS 3 Ontology, [2018]
- Understanding PREMIS: An Overview of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, 2021-07. (Czech, English, German, Italian, and Portuguese)
- PROV (for Provenance)
- PROV Family of Documents, W3C (12 recommendations and notes)
- PROV-DC (Note): a mapping between PROV-O and Dublin Core Terms
- ArchiveGrid, supporting EAD 2002, EAD 3, MARC, PDF, and HTML
- Related to the IMLS-funded Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project (2020-2023)
5 Metadata for Publishing and Press Communications
- IPTC Metadata Standards Website (multiple standards)
- IPTC Photo Metadata Standard 2023, rev 1, 2024-07-01, including the following:
- IPTC Core Metadata Schema 1.4
- IPTC Extension Metadata Schema 1.8
- IPTC’s rNews standard - NewsML-G2 (including EventsML-G2 and SportsML-G2) 2.33, revised 2024-09-12 Guidelines
- PBCore
- Elements online | PBCore 2.1 Data model visualization | Recorded PBCore webinar series, 2021-09 & 2021-10
- EPUB
- EPUB Accessibility Techniques 1.1 W3C Group Note, 2024-07.
6 Standardized Schemes
- Language Metadata Table standard (LMT).
- LMT v5.0, April 9, 2024. - Includes 280+ language codes and display values – with another 50+ being researched.
7 Guidelines
- NISO RP-41-2023, Video and Audio Metadata Guidelines
Publication Date: February 13, 2023 ISBN: 978-1-950980-19-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3789/niso-rp-41-2023- ALA Institutional Repository (ALAIR) Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional Librarians, 2023-12-13
8 Special Resources
- Wikidata
- Acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects, including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others. [Home]
- As a data model that supports description standards for particular domains, such as the premodern manuscripts
- As a hub for authority alignment and aggregation