External Arrangement and Description Standards

Technical Standards

• Australian Government Locator Service Metadata Standard (AGLS)
• Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES)
• eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
• eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
• Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
• Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
• MPEG Multimedia Content Description Interface (MPEG-7)
• Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
• Open Archives Initiative Object Re-use and Exchange (OAI-ORE)
• Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL)
• Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies (PREMIS)
• Public Broadcasting Core Metadata Dictionary (PB Core)
• Qualified Dublin Core (QDC)
• Visual Resources Association Core Categories (VRA Core)

Conventions and/or Rules

• Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition, Revised (AACR2)
• Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (CCO)
• Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
• Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)
• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
• Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD)
• Guidelines for Archival Description of Notated Music, A Supplement to Describing Archives: A Content Standard
  [Endorsed by SAA]
• International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families [ISAAR(CPF)]
• International Standard Archival Description (General) [ISAD(G)]
• International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
• International Standard for Describing Functions (ISDF)
• Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD)
• Resource Description and Access (RDA)
• Rules for Archival Description (RAD)
• SPECTRUM

Best Practices

• Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia (A4BLiP) Anti-Racist Description Resources
  [Endorsed by SAA]

Taxonomies

• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
• Book Industry Standards and Communications (BISAC)
• Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
• GEOnet Names Server (GNS/GNIS)
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
• Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
• MARC Code List for Relators
• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
• NASA Thesaurus
• Sears List of Subject Headings
• The International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
• Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM)
• Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)