Project-Related Standards

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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

• The "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces [draft]

Library of Congress (U.S.)

• MARC 21 Concise Format for Authority Data
• MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data
• MARC 21 Concise Format for Classification Data
• MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, and Exchange Media
• MARC 21 XML Schema

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

• Z39.2 — 1994 (R2001) Information Interchange Format
• Z39.19 — 2003 Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri
• Z39.50 — 2003 Information Retrieval : Application Service Definition & Protocol Specification
• Z39.85 — 2001 Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

Other Technical Standards

• The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, version 2.0
• SRW/U: Search and Retrieve Web Service/Search and Retrieve via URL
• Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation, version 0.4
• Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation, version 0.5

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition)
• RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema
• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)
• RDF Thesaurus

  • SKOS Core 1.0 Guide [draft]
  • SKOS Inter-Thesaurus Mapping, version 0.1 [draft]
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1 [note]
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 [note]

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