Just to let you know, we are no longer updating this section. This is retained as a resource but nothing new has been added since late 2009. No further additions will be made by the DCC.

The DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks were developed in partnership with a number of organisations with the aim of presenting searchable frameworks of standards relevant to digital curation and ...

Digital curation is the management and preservation of digital data/information over the long-term.

A list of nearly 40 Minimum Information standards projects registered with the MIBBI initiative. A a virtual laboratory for neurophysiology, enabling sharing and collaborative exploitation of data, ...

Specifications for the minimum information that should be collected about research data in order for it to be re-used.

A profile of ISO 19115, also mapping to the AGLS profile of Dublin Core, designed to facilitate efficient access to descriptions of information resources, particularly geographic or spatial data. The ...

A set of metadata panels that can be added to Adobe Creative Suite 4 applications to allow AVM-compliant metadata to be entered directly into images.

The Wisconsin Land INformation Clearinghouse review of metadata tools used for documenting geospatial data and serving geospatial metadata. It includes tools for CSDGM, ISO 19115, Dublin Core, and DIF ...

Our Guides and Checklists are aimed at the those in research data management support roles.

The Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) Schema is an evolving comprehensive standard for the access to and exchange of data about specimens and observations ...

A service to facilitate the publication of metadata in the AGRIS Repository; it conforms to the the AGRIS Application Profile, which draws from the Dublin Core and AgMES standards. A GeoNetwork web ...

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 ...