Accessibility guidelines | ||
|---|---|---|
| Web Accessibility Initiative at W3C | http://www.w3.org/WAI/ | |
| Federal Information Technology Accessibility Initiative | http://www.section508.gov/ | |
Initiatives & Resources | ||
| Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2 | http://dli2.nsf.gov/ | |
| Open Archives Initiative | http://www.openarchives.org/ | |
| Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE | http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ | |
| Open Archival Information System (OAIS) | http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/overview.html | |
| U.K. Interoperability Focus | http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/ | |
Intellectual property | ||
| Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues | http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Copyright/ | |
| U.S. Copyright Office | http://www.copyright.gov/ | |
Markup standards | ||
| HyperText Markup Language (HTML) | http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ | |
| Extensible Markup Language (XML) | http://www.w3.org/XML/ | |
| Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) | http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/ | |
Metadata standards | ||
| Dublin Core Metadata Initiative | http://dublincore.org/ | |
| MARC 21 | http://www.loc.gov/marc/ | |
| Encoded Archival Description (EAD) | http://www.loc.gov/ead/ | |
| International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Metadata Resources | http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm | |
| Metadata and Resource Description at W3C | http://www.w3.org/Metadata/ | |
Network standards | ||
| The Digital Object Identifier | http://www.doi.org/ | |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) | http://www.w3.org/Protocols/ | |
| Persistent URL home page | http://purl.oclc.org/ | |
| Uniform Resource Names (urn) Charter | http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/OLD/urn-charter.html | |
| Z39.50 | http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/ | |
Organizations | ||
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Technical Standards Committee | http://www.acm.org/tsc/ | |
| American National Standards Institute (ANSI) | http://www.ansi.org/ | |
| Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) | http://www.cni.org/ | |
| Digital Library Federation (DLF) | http://www.diglib.org/ | |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Standards Association | http://standards.ieee.org/ | |
| International Organization for Standardization (ISO) | http://www.iso.ch/ | |
| Internet Engineering Task Force | http://www.ietf.org/ | |
| National Information Standards Organization (NISO) | http://www.niso.org/ | |
| World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | http://www.w3.org/ | |
| Unicode Consortium | http://www.unicode.org/ | |
Subject access and control | ||
| Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) | http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html | |
| Getty Vocabulary Program | http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ | |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) | http://www.loc.gov/cds/lcsh.html | |