Specifications for the minimum information that should be collected about research data in order for it to be re-used.

Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community Framework for Electronic Signatures.

The Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) Schema is an evolving comprehensive standard for the access to and exchange of data about specimens and observations ...

Practical guidance and examples to help you develop your Data Management Plan ...

The Data Package specification is a generic wrapper format for exchanging data, consisting of a folder containing data files and a descriptor file. A domain-agnostic list of core metadata properties ...

Digital curation is the management and preservation of digital data/information over the long-term.

A study-data oriented model that captures high-level information about scientific studies and the data that they produce, primarily tailored for the physical sciences. Used by the astronomy community ...

The Wisconsin Land INformation Clearinghouse review of metadata tools used for documenting geospatial data and serving geospatial metadata. It includes tools for CSDGM, ISO 19115, Dublin Core, and DIF ...

The OpenAIRE Guidelines are a suite of application profiles designed to allow research institutions to make their scholarly outputs visible through the OpenAIRE infrastructure. The profiles are based ...

Planning for the future: developing and preserving information resources in the Arts and Humanities ...

A service to facilitate the publication of metadata in the AGRIS Repository; it conforms to the the AGRIS Application Profile, which draws from the Dublin Core and AgMES standards. A GeoNetwork web ...