Candidate List of Standards for Collection in a Metadata Registry – First Incremental Report

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Technical Report 2

March 31, 2005

Judith J. Newton, Principal

Ashton Computing and Management Services, LLC

301-774-0929

List of Standards Under Consideration for Inclusion in the Metadata Registry

Code Lists Grouped by Subject Area

Geographic Information

  • ISO 19115:2003 Geographic information - Metadata
  • ISO 3166-1: 1997, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes Contains three code sets and four name variation sets.
  • ISO 3166-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 2: Country subdivision code
  • ISO 3166-3:1999 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries
  • FGDC-STD-001: 1998 Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM), Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)

Related FIPS Standards:

  • FIPS PUB 5-2 Codes for the Identification of States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of the United States, and Associated Areas
  • FIPS PUB 10-4 Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Principal Administrative Division
  • FIPS PUB 6-4 Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas

The Library of Congress maintains publicly available code lists derived from ISO codes:

Library of Congress, MARC 21 Code List for Countries, 2003

Library of Congress, MARC 21 Code List for Geographic Areas, 2003

Library of Congress, MARC 21 Code List for Languages, 2005

Library of Congress, MARC 21 Code List for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions, 2005

Library of Congress, MARC 21 Code List for Organizations, 2005

SI Units

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Pub 811, 1995 Edition, Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)
  • ISO 1000:1992 SI units and recommendations for the use of their multiples and of certain other units
  • ANSI X3.50-1986: Representations for U.S. Customary, SI and Other Units with Limited Character Sets
  • Universal Postal Union Addressing Formats Guide

Industry-Related Codes

  • North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) - United States, 2002, Official U.S. Government NAICS Manual
  • Standard Industrial Classification of Establishments, 1987, PB 94-502085HDY, FIPS PUB 66, Change Notice Number 2, October 15, 1997

ECCMA Standards

  • UNSPSC – commodities
  • EGAB – products/services
  • IAEC – address
  • ELTS – language translation schema
  • EBFS – business function
  • EBRS – reporting schemas
  • EAAS – administrative areas
  • EGMS – global materials
  • EUFS – URL format schema
  • EUTS – URL type/content

Language Codes- Related Standards

  • ISO 639-1:2002 Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 1: Alpha-2 code
  • ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 2: Alpha-3 code

ANSI/NISO Z39.53-2001: Codes for the Representation of Languages for Information Interchange

Note: See also MARC 21 Code List for Languages, above.

  • ISO 9735:1988 Electronic data interchange for administration, commerce and transport (EDIFACT) -- Application level syntax rulesalso: ISO 9735:1988/Amd 1:1992
  • ISO 9735-1:2002 Electronic data interchange for administration, commerce and transport (EDIFACT) -- Application level syntax rules (Syntax version number: 4, Syntax release number: 1) -- Part 1: Syntax rules common to all parts

Note: Investigation of older versions of standards depends on availability.

Terminology, Taxonomy and Thesaurus Related Standards

  • ISO 2788:1986 Documentation -- Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri
  • W3C, SKOS Core Guide, W3C Editor’s Working Draft, Feb. 2005. A model for the basic structure and content of concept schemes using RDF.
  • ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2003: Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri
  • ISO 704:2000 Terminology work -- Principles and methods
  • ISO 860:1996 Terminology work -- Harmonization of concepts and terms
  • ISO 1087-1:2000 Terminology work -- Vocabulary -- Part 1: Theory and application

See also MARC 21 Code List for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions, cited above.

ISO 11179 Family of Standards

Listed here for completeness. It is assumed that the Registry will be built in compliance with these standards.

ISO/IEC 11179-1:2004 Information technology -- Metadata registries (MDR) -- Part 1: Framework

ISO/IEC 11179-2:2000 Information technology -- Specification and standardization of data elements -- Part 2: Classification for data elements

ISO/IEC 11179-3:2003 (E) Information technology -- Metadata registries (MDR) -- Part 3: Registry metamodel and basic attributes

ISO/IEC 11179-4:2004 (E) Information technology -- Metadata registries (MDR) -- Part 4: Formulation of data definitions

ISO/IEC 11179-5:1995 Information technology -- Specification and standardization of data elements -- Part 5: Naming and identification principles for data elements

ISO/IEC 11179-6:2005 Information technology -- Metadata registries (MDR) -- Part 6: Registration

ISO/IEC TR 11404:1996 Information technology -- Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces -- Language-independent datatypes

ISO/IEC TR 20943-1:2003 Information technology -- Procedures for achieving metadata registry (MDR) content consistency -- Part 1: Data elements

ISO/IEC TR 20943-3:2004 Information technology - Procedure for achieving metadata Registry Content Consistency -- Part 3: Value Domains

ISO/IEC WD 20943-4 Information technology - Achieving metadata registry content consistency -- Part 4: Overview

ISO/IEC 20944 series Information technology -- Metadata registry -- Interoperability and bindings

The following categories of standards are candidates for future investigation and possible inclusion in the metadata registry:

Critical Infrastructure

Telecomm

Oil

Power

Finance

Banking

Civil Engineering

Communications (movie/TV/etc.)

Biometrics

Format – XML, OWL, etc.

Agent Architecture

Resources

fipa.org - standards for the interoperation of heterogeneous software agents.

DAML.org – DAML, OWL, etc

swoogle.org – A crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web.

webkb.org - WebKB is an on-line private/shared knowledge-based annotation tool.