Library Guides: Data Management: Creating Metadata

Dublin Core Standards

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
One of the most common metadata schemes. Dublin Core has a vocabulary of 15 core qualifiers that describe a wide range of data. All of these properties are optional and can be used in any order.
1. Title; 2. Date; 3. Type; 4. Rights; 5. Creator; 6. Subject; 7. Source; 8. Description; 9. Publisher; 10. Contributor; 11. Format; 12. Identifier; 13. Language; 14. Relation; 15. Coverage.
Dublin Core User Guide

Metadata standards by discipline
From the Digital Curation Center. Links to disciplinary metadata standards.
Astronomy Visualization Metadata (AVM)
Metadata standards developed for data-derived astronomical images.
Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
Metadata standards developed for describing works of art, architecture, and other relevant works.
Darwin Core
Metadata standards developed for biodiversity data.
Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
Metadata standards developed for the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences.
Ecological Metadata Language (EML)
Metadata standards developed for ecological studies.
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FDGC)
Metadata standards developed for documenting digital geospatial data.
MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC)
Metadata standards developed for the representation of bibliographic data in machine-readable form.