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Data Standards/Schemas, Controlled Vocabularies & Encoding Schemes
Data Standards/Schemas
- ANSI/NISO Z39.71-2006 (R2011) Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items
- NISO Z39.44 Serial Holdings Standard (superseded by ANSI/NISO Z39.71-2006)
- CopyrightMD
- DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) Metadata Terms
- EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
- MARC 21 (Machine-readable cataloging)
- MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
- Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Controlled Vocabularies
- Age ratings for computer games (Pan European Game Information (PEGI)
- Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules general material designation (Rule 1.1C)
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
- Children’s Subject Headings (CSH)
- Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF)
- Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST)
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
- General Material Designation (GMD)
- Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, Etc., 2nd edition
- Form terms for archival and manuscripts control
- Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
- Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings Supplemental Vocabularies: Children’s Headings (LCSHAC)
- MARC Form Category Term List
- MARC Form of Item Term List
- MARC 21 Frequency of Issue Term List
- MARC Genre Term List
- MARC Relators
- MARC Target Audience Term List
- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- Medietilsynets aldersmerking for film (Medietilsynet)
- Målgrupper (National Library of Norway)
- National Agricultural Library
- RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Genre Terms
- RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Provenance Evidence Terms
- Répertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM)
- Specific Material Form Term List
- Term and Code List for RDA Carrier Types
- Term and Code List for RDA Content Types
- Term and Code List for RDA Media Types
- Thesaurus for graphic materials (TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms)
Encoding Schemes
- ISO 3166 — Country Codes
- ISO 639-2b: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages
- ISO 80000-1:2009(en): Quantities and units
- ISO 8601: Date and Time Format
- MARC Code List for Countries
- MARC Code List for Geographic Areas
- MARC Code List for Languages
- MARC Form of Musical Composition Code List
- MARC Relators
- Term and Code List for RDA Carrier Types
- Term and Code List for RDA Content Types
- Term and Code List for RDA Media Types