Miscellaneous specifications

See this list of standards

Discovery

• RFC 5785: Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
• RFC 6415: Web Host Metadata
• eXtensible Resource Descriptor (XRD)

Rights

• dc:accessRights
• dc:license
• dc:rights
• Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (cc)
• Linked Data Rights (ldr)
• Open Data Rights Statement Vocabulary (odrs)
• Copyright Ontology (co)
• Open Digital Rights Language (odrl): CG
• License Model (LiMo) Ontology (limoo)
• MPEG-21
• Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata: PRISM Usage Rights
• METSRights
• Comparison of cc, odrl, MPEG-21

Documents

See Issue #13

• DoCO, the Document Components Ontology: for marking up document text
• StratML for strategic plans and performance reports

Contracts

• Payments Ontology
• Public Contracts Ontology by the Czech OpenData initiative: mostly covered by Open Contracting, extended by Public Procurement Ontology (PPROC)
• OASIS LegalXML: eContracts technical committee and specification: for marking up contract text, uses DC for metadata
• Linked Open Tenders Electronic Daily (LOTED) ontology
• Call for Anything vocabulary

Law

• CEN MetaLex representing sources of law and references to sources of law in XML
• Finlex Case-law Metadata Schema
• European Case Law Identifier uses Dublin Core
• PlainSite: Database format proposal and News Challenge submission

Sector-specific

• Data Documentation Initiative metadata for the social and behavioral sciences
• PBCore public broadcasting, elements, attributes, diagram, XSD

Country-specific

• US Federal Geographic Data Committee geospatial

Crosswalks

• Dublin Core, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), MARC 21