CERIF is the standard that the EU recommends to its member states for recording information about research activity.
The Data Package specification is a generic wrapper format for exchanging data, consisting of a folder containing data files and a descriptor file.
A domain-agnostic list of core metadata properties chosen for the accurate and consistent identification of data for citation and retrieval purposes.
DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web.
A basic, domain-agnostic standard which can be easily understood and implemented, and as such is one of the best known and most widely used metadata standards.
Defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources.
This standard specifies an XML implementation for the OGC and ISO Observations and Measurements (O&M) conceptual model, including a schema for Sampling Features.
The PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) Data Dictionary defines a set of metadata that most repositories of digital objects would need to record and use in order to preserve those objects over the long term.
A specification that provides a vocabulary to interchange provenance information.
The Data Cube vocabulary is a core foundation which supports extension vocabularies to enable publication of other aspects of statistical data flows or other multi-dimensional data sets.
Some repositories have decided that current standards do not fit their metadata needs, and so have created their own requirements.
An application of Dublin Core designed to improve visibility and availability of online resources, originally adapted from the Australian Government Locator Service metadata standard for use in government agencies.
Used to describe semantic assets, defined as highly reusable metadata (for example: XML schemata, generic data models) and reference data (for example: code lists, taxonomies, dictionaries, vocabularies) that are used for eGovernment system development.
An application profile based on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Abstract Model, used to describe multi-disciplinary data underlying peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature.
A reference framework that provides a common terminology acroos and between statistical organisations; aligns with DDI and SDMX.
The OpenAIRE Guidelines are a suite of application profiles designed to allow research institutions to make their scholarly outputs visible through the OpenAIRE infrastructure. The profiles are based on established standards and designed to be used in conjunction with the OAI-PMH metadata harvesting protocol:
While the focus of each profile is different, they allow for interlinking and the contextualization of research artefacts.
A profile of the Data Package specification, intended for exchanging tabular data in CSV (comma-separated values) format.
Tool which utilizes the DCAT standard. CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data.
CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and organizations) wanting to make their data open and available. Portals that use CKAN include http://data.gov.uk and http://open-data.europa.eu. The United States http://data.gov uses a version of CKAN wrapped up as the Open Government Platform.
Current research information system implementing the CERIF standard. Originally developed by Avedas but now a product of Thomson Reuters.
A collection of libraries for working with Data Packages in various programming languages, and scripts for importing them into databases.
The Data Package Validator takes the URL of a Data Package and checks whether it conforms to the Data Package specification.
The Data Package Viewer takes the URL of a Data Package and provides a human-friendly view of it.
The Data Packagist is a Web-based tool for writing a Data Package descriptor file (datapackage.json).
RESTFUL API for registering datasets with the DataCite organization. The interface uses the DataCite Metadata Schema.
The DCMI Tools Community list of tools and software implementing Dublin Core.
DdiEditor is a DDI-Lifecycle Editing Framework developed by the DDA - Danish Data Archive.
Geoportal Server is a standards-based, open source product that enables discovery and use of geospatial resources including data and services.
Geometa is an R package that offers facilities to handle reading and writing of geographic metadata defined with OGC/ISO 19115, 11119 and 19110 geographic information metadata standards, and encoded using the ISO 19139 XML standard. It also includes a facility to check the validity of ISO 19139 XML encoded metadata. The package can be used in integrated (meta)data management flows to generate business metadata compliant with ISO/OGC standards. Metadata generated with geometa can then be published to standard web metadata catalogues by means of related R packages such as ows4R (R interface to OGC Web-Services) or geonapi (R Interface to GeoNetwork API).
The Linked Data Cubes Explorer allows for the analysis of statistical datasets using the RDF Cube Vocabulary.
This service validates OAI-PMH metadata records against the OpenAIRE Guidelines for publication repositories, data archives and current research information systems.
Current research information system developed by Elsevier that implements the CERIF standard.
This tool uses the Observations and Measurements standard to define a Web service interface which allows querying observations, sensor metadata, as well as representations of observed features.
Current research information system implementing the CERIF standard.
A multidisciplinary data repository for a consortium of universities in the Netherlands, using a metadata structure based on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
The Vatican Library uses FITS as the digital image format for the digitization of its manuscript collection.
A collection of commonly used and example data sets packaged using the Data Package specification.
An online digital repository of multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Edinburgh, using a modified Dublin Core metadata catalogue.
The University of Southampton's multi-disciplinary Institutional Research Repository, using a profile of Dublin Core and administrative ePrints metadata.
W3C Government Linked Data list of implementations of the RDF Data Cube Vocabulary.
An online portal for education and research on learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, using a profile of the Dublin Core Metadata Elements for resource and collections metadata.
Develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.
A European Scholarly Communication Infrastructure that aggregates bibliographic metadata from a network of publication repositories, data archives and CRIS following the OpenAIRE Guidelines. Together with additional authoritative information, the objects and their relationships described by the metadata form an information space graph which can be traversed by users and accessed via APIs by other services. The metadata primarily support discovery and monitoring services.
A list of the implementations and usage of the PROV specifications.