Metadata - Specific Applications

Dublin Core

DC (Dublin Core): The official home of the Dublin Core, including the reference set, qualifiers, the standard, the workshop reports, working papers, position papers, working groups, and various projects and publications.

Encoded Archival Description: The official home of the EAD DTD, maintained by the Library of Congress. The L of C's American Memory digital library project includes some sample finding aids tagged in EAD.
TEI Website: Home page of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium, with the TEI Guidelines, tutorials, pointers to projects, FAQs, and so on.

Bibliographic Formats and Standards [MARC]: Available from OCLC, the Library of Congress, and the UNIMARC version from IFLA.
MARC Standards: The LC MARC home page, including online access to coding manuals, information on mapping MARC to other metadata, and much more.
MARCXML: Home page for L of C efforts in this area.
MODS: A simpler MARC or a more complex Dublin Core, XML-based. Bibliographic element set for library use.

Metadata Migrator: An IMLS-funded software package that helps to facilitate exposing metedata to OAI harvesters.
Open Archives Initiative (OAI): In support of metadata harvesting, and D-Space. Recently, OAI has presented the Object Reuse and Exchange specification for describing and exchanging aggregations of Web resources.
ROAR - Regsitry of Open Access Repositories

Categories for the Description of Works of Art: Main page for this subsite of the Getty's Metadata pages, with lots of detailed information and many examples of described objects.
Geospatial Metadata: Brough to you by the Federal Geographic Data Committee.
METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard): "A standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library."
VRA (Visual Resources Association) Core Categories, Version 4.0: For "works of visual culture and the images which document them."