Metadata Schemas

Metadata Schemas in Use/Of Interest to the Islandora Project

This page provides links to the metadata schemas we are using in our VRE projects, or provide examples models for our work.

• Administrative/General
  • ATOM (feeds)
  • PREMIS  (preservation)
  • DDI (data/documentation)
  • Docbook (documentation)
  • SCORM (learning objects)
• Library/Bibliographic
  • Dublin Core
  • MADS (authorities)
  • MODS (bib data)
  • METS (uber schema)
  • FoXML
  • TEI (text)
• Images
  • MIX
• Sound
  • MusicXML (music/scores)
• Video
  • SMIL (multimedia)
• BioScience/Chemistry
  • CML (chemistry)
  • Critter (in-house schema)
  • EMBL (gene sequences)
  • EML (ecology)
  • MzXML (mass spec data)
  • NCBI (gene sequences)
  • SNOMED-CT (medical terminology)
• Business
  • UBL (business processes)
  • XBRL (business)
• Humanities
  • CDWA (art collections)
  • GenXML (geneology)