Standards & Tools
Other Standards (Compilations)
Other Standards (Individual Standards)
Other Standards (Compilations)
Provides downloadable .pdf files of ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families and ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, 2nd ed., as well as links to the “Guidelines for the Preparation and Presentation of Finding Aids” and the “Guidelines for the Translation of Standards of the Committee on Descriptive Standards” documents.
Describes technical standards, conventions, and guidelines used by archivists in describing holdings and repositories.
Other Standards (Individual Standards)
ALA LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes For Non Roman Scripts ALA LC Romanization Tables. 1997 ed. Washington: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress.
Audio Interchange Standards. The Diffuse Project.
The list provides information on standards used to interchange audio (sound) data, from MPEG standards to WAVE and MIDI among others, funded by Information Society Technologies programme.
A conceptual framework that defines relationships between works, their creators and their subjects.
OAI-PMH. Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
A framework for metadata harvesting created to facilitate discovery of resources whose descriptions (metadata, catalog records) are distributed across multiple remote databases.
ODRL. The Open Digital Rights Initiative
The ODRL specification supports an extensible language and vocabulary (data dictionary) for the expression of terms and conditions over any content including permissions, constraints, obligations, conditions, and offers and agreements with rights holders. The ODRL has also been submitted to MPEG for their rights language specification. It is freely available and has no licensing requirements.
XML. Extensible Markup Language. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML. XML is playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.
XrML. eXtensible Rights Markup Language
Provides a universal method for securely specifying and managing rights and conditions associated with all kinds of resources including digital content as well as services. XrML is currently being explored as the base for the rights language specification by MPEG and Open eBook Forum. XrML 2.0 is extensible and fully compliant with XML namespaces using XML schema technology.
A standard which specifies a technical protocol for searching and retrieving information from multiple remote online catalogs or other Z39.50-compliant databases regardless of the native search commands of those individual catalogs or databases. "Z39.50" refers to the numbers of the ISO and ANSI/NISO standards (ISO 23950 and ANSI/NISO Z39.50). The Library of Congress is the Maintenance Agency and Registration Authority for both standards, which are technically identical.
ZING. Z39.50 International: the Next Generation. The Library of Congress.
ZING covers a number of initiatives by Z39.50 implementors to make the intellectual/semantic content of Z39.50 more broadly available and to make Z39.50 more attractive to information providers, developers, vendors, and users, by lowering the barriers to implementation while preserving the existing intellectual contributions of Z39.50 that have accumulated over nearly 20 years.