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 ...

Just to let you know, we are no longer updating this section. This is retained as a resource but nothing new has been added since late 2009. No further additions will be made by the DCC.

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

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

An international standard for describing data from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Expressed in XML, the DDI metadata specification supports the entire research data life cycle.

A list of nearly 40 Minimum Information standards projects registered with the MIBBI initiative. A a virtual laboratory for neurophysiology, enabling sharing and collaborative exploitation of data, ...

Our Guides and Checklists are aimed at the those in research data management support roles.

A set of metadata panels that can be added to Adobe Creative Suite 4 applications to allow AVM-compliant metadata to be entered directly into images.

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 ...

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

A set of tools and practices improving the availability, quality, and comprehensibility of human variation information. It enables researchers, diagnostic laboratories, and clinics to share that ...

A set of mandatory metadata that must be registered with the DataCite Metadata Store when minting a DOI persistent identifier for a dataset. The domain-agnostic properties were chosen for their ...