The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress and is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space…
The Object Description Schema (MODS) is an XML-based bibliographic description schema developed by the United States Library of Congress' Network Development and Standards Office. MODS was designed as a compromise between the complexity of the MARC…
The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard in the fields of library and computer science. It is intended to be used for cross-domain information resource description. It defines conventions for describing things online in ways that make them…
This document contains information relevant to 'Atom Publishing Format and Protocol' and is part of the Cover Pages resource. The Cover Pages is a comprehensive Web-accessible reference collection supporting the SGML/XML family of (meta) markup…
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C and several other related specifications; all are fee-free open standards.[3]
A comma-separated values (CSV) file is used for the digital storage of data structured in a table of lists form, where each associated item (member) in a group is in association with others also separated by the commas of its set. Each line in the…
"Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)" (formerly The International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases) is a non profit scientific and educational association that is affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences. The…
"Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)" (formerly The International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases) is a non profit scientific and educational association that is affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences. The…
Darwin Core is a Biodiversity informatics data standard that consists of a vocabulary of terms to facilitate the discovery, retrieval, and integration of information about organisms, their spatiotemporal occurrence, and the supporting evidence housed…
To ensure correct and proper use and interpretation of data, all users and owners of data should have a common understanding of the meaning or semantics of the data. To achieve this common understanding, a number of characteristics, or attributes of…
The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard in the fields of library and computer science. It is intended to be used for cross-domain information resource description. It defines conventions for describing things online in ways that make them…
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C and several other related specifications; all are fee-free open standards.[3]
Biodiversity Informatics is the application of informatics techniques to biodiversity information for improved management, presentation, exploration and analysis. It typically builds on a foundation of taxonomic, biogeographic, or ecological…
