Dublin Core for Omeka Resources
Description Resources
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Terms and Elements: https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/
Working with Dublin Core, Omeka Classic Manual: https://omeka.org/classic/docs/Content/Working_with_Dublin_Core/
Anti-Racist Description Resources: https://github.com/a4blip/A4BLiP
Standards for describing languages, ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2: https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
Copyright
Creative Commons: http://ccommons.org
Digital Copyright Slider: https://librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/index.html
Controlled vocabularies
Library of Congress Subject Headings https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html
Library of Congress Name Authority File: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html
Thesaurus of Geographic Names: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html
Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/MIME Types https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types/Common_types
Other Metadata Standards
VRA Core http://core.vraweb.org/
Darwin Core https://dwc.tdwg.org/
PB Core – public broadcasting, audiovisual materials https://pbcore.org/
The Digital Curation Centre in the UK maintains a huge list of metadata standards, if you’re curious: https://www.dcc.ac.uk/guidance/standards/metadata/list. Really specific academic fields often have their own standards.
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