Topic: Useful resources
Topic Type: Topic
Links to resources useful to describing content items.
Encoding schemes
Selecting terms from an encoding scheme means that your content will be more disoverable. Encoding schemes ensure the words or data values you use to describe your content are the same as the ones other people use, so content can be pooled together easily.
Feel free to add new controlled vocabularies or data formatting standards to this list.
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Australian Public Affairs Information Service Thesaurus
- Australian Pictorial Thesaurus
- British Museum Materials Thesaurus
- DCMI Type Vocabulary
- Eprints Type Vocabulary Encoding Scheme
- Māori Subject Headings
- Marsden Fields of Research Classification Codes (PDF)
- MIME Media Types
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms and Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms
- Linnaean Taxonomy
- Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging
- ISO 639-1 Language Codes
- W3CDTF - a profile of ISO 8601, the International Standard for the representation of dates and times
