| Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) | XML |
| ocial science data, mandatory and optional metadata elements for study description, data file description and variable description, codebook version (DDI2 or DDI-C) and lifecycle version (DDI3 or DDI-Ls) | |
| Dublin Core (DC) | XML |
| basic, generic, discipline-agnostic, web resources, 15 (optional) metadata elements | |
| Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) | XML, RDF |
| for mark-up of textual data, e.g. turn takers in speech, typos, formatting text on screen | |
| Data Cite | |
| publishing digital datasets with persistent identifier (DOI), five mandatory and multiple recommended/optional elements, discipline-agnostic | |
| ISO 19115 | |
| geographic information | |
| QuDex (Qualitative Data Exchange) | |
| rich file-level description, document coding and annotation and intra-collection relationships. Allows identification of data objects such as: Interview transcript or audio recording etc. Relationship to another data object or part of data. Descriptive categories at the object level, e.g. interview characteristics, interview setting. Capacity to capture rich annotation of parts of data. | |
| Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) | |
| record research information about people, projects, outputs (publications, patents, products), funding, events, facilities, equipment | |
| Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) | |
| encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library | |
| Metadata preparation/markup guidelines QualiBank | |
| QualiBank Processing Procedures | |
| Metadata preparation/markup procedures QualiBank | |
| Qualitative data collection ingest processing procedures |