GEM Thesaurus schema is a simple lexicon where words are grouped by ideas, such as synonyms with synonyms. Digital Libraries may include a thesaurus to enable you to find out which terms or subject he

The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. It provides a simple and standardised set of conventions for describing things online in ways that

An Open Archival Information System (or OAIS) is an archive, consisting of an organization of people and systems, that has accepted the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java and has been ported to .NET Framework. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

PRONOM is a web-based technical registry to support digital preservation services, developed by The National Archives of the United Kingdom. PRONOM was the first and remains, to date, the only operati

The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide We

Extensible Markup Language is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing and libraries, XML is al

MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands for MAchine-Readable Cataloging. The MARC standards consist of the MARC formats, which are standards for the representation and co

ISO 14721,ISO 3166,ISO 639-3

This standard provides general guidance for the preparation of archival descriptions. It is to be used in conjunction with existing national standards or as the basis for the development of national s

The MVD architecture heralds a document model supporting deep extension to novel and arbitrary aspects of document functionality, even distributed in situ annotation. Sending and receiving email, writ

SOA is a flexible set of design principles used during the phases of systems development and integration. Upon deployment, an SOA-based architecture will provide a loosely-integrated suite of services