Metadata Standards Updates (2020s) & Resources
New & Notable developments
- ADMS (Asset Description Metadata Schema) Vocabulary (ADMS 2.0), 16 May 2023
- First Webinar on ADMS event, 2023-04-25, with Slides || Meeting minutes || Recording
- Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) version 0.9 Draft Community Group Report, 22 October 2022
- 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]
- EPUB 3.3 W3C Recommendation 25 May 2023
- MPEG Standards - Exploration, a suite of exploration activities likely to become standards or parts of standards
- NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention Version 1.9, 2021-09-10
- NISO draft Content Profile/Linked Document (CP/LD) standard (open for public comments through May 12, 2023)
- W3C Accessibility Standards Overview || All Standards and Drafts Updated 2022-06-29
- Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - Version 3, W3C Working Draft- W3C Editor, 2023-10-25 -->
Current standards
1 Metadata for general purposes
- Dublin Core
- Specifications
- DCMI Metadata Terms, updated 2020-01
- LRMI Terms (RDF) 2020-11-12, Learning Resource Metadata (LRMI)
- DC Tabular Application Profiles (DC TAP) draft specification, 2021-04
- "DCMI Today" [video, DCMI-2021]
- Schema.org
- Schemas, current version
- Releases - summary
- BIBFRAME
- MODS
- MODS 3.8 (April 22nd, 2022)
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (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 2019
- Crosswalk of CDWA with other Standards, Revised 2022
- 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 08/15/2022)
- Chinese - Traditional (last updated 08/15/2022)
- VRA Core 5.0 (in development)
- Object ID
3 Metadata for Research Data
- Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT)
- Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - Version 2, W3C Recommendation 04 February 2020
- "Introduction to the W3C Data Catalog Ontology (DCAT)" [DCMI Webinar, 2020-11-12]
- Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - Version 3, W3C Working Draft- W3C Editor, 2023-03-07
- Darwin Core
- Darwin Core Standards (comprised of 5 vocabularies and 11 documents)
- Darwin Core quick reference guide, 2021
- Simple Darwin Core, 2021-07
- Generic Earth Observation Metadata Standard (GEOMS)
- GEOMS v1.0, 2021-12
- DataCite Metadata Schema
- DataCite Metadata Schema v4.4, 2021-03
4 Metadata for Archives, Preservation, Provenance
- Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
- EAD3 1.1.1, 2019-12
- EAC-CPF Encoded Archival Context—Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families, Draft Schema Version 2.0 (2021-03)
- PREMIS (for Preservation Metadata)
- PREMIS 3 Ontology, 2018-10
- "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 (2020-09 to 2023-02)
5 Metadata for Publishing and Press Communications
- IPTC Metadata Standards Website (multiple standards)
- IPTC Photo Metadata Standard 2021.1, including:
- IPTC’s rNews standard - NewsML-G2 (including EventsML-G2 and SportsML-G2) 2.30, released 2021-11 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, 13 September 2022.
6 Standardized schemes
7 Guidelines
- Language Metadata Table standard (LMT).
- LMT v4.2, Dec. 30, 2022. - Includes 280 language codes and display values – with another 50+ being researched.
- NISO's Recommended Practice for Video and Audio Metadata Now Available For Public Comment, June 21 - Aug. 25, 2022