Metadata Schemas

• Structural standards

  • MODS - descriptive metadata
  • CIDOC - source metadata
  • METS - a framework which wraps all descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata

• Content standards

  • Inspired by AACR2

• Value standards (vocabulary control)

  • Art & Architecture Thesaurus
  • MIME
  • DCMI Type
  • Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST)