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==Standards== There are various [[Technical standard|standards]] using different acronyms. '''Standards for authority metadata''': * [[MARC standards]] for authority records in machine-readable format.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html |title=MARC 21 Format for Authority Data |website=Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office |access-date=18 December 2011}}</ref> * [[Metadata Authority Description Schema]] (MADS), an XML schema for an authority element set that may be used to provide metadata about agents (people, organizations), events, and terms (topics, geographics, genres, etc.). * [[Encoded Archival Context]], an XML schema for authority records conforming to ''ISAAR''. '''Standards for object identification, controlled by an identification-authority''': * [[Legal personality]] identification systems (person-IDs) and authorities: **[[International Standard Archival Authority Record|''ISAAR'' (CPF) β International Standard Archival Authority Record]] for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ica.org/en/node/30230|title=ISAAR (CPF): International standard archival authority record for corporate bodies, persons, and families |edition=2nd |last=International Council on Archives|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605022557/http://www.ica.org/en/node/30230|archive-date=5 June 2007}}</ref> Published by the International Council on Archives<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ica.org/|title=ICArchives : Page d'accueil : Accueil|last=International Council on Archives|publisher=Ica.org|access-date=18 December 2011}}</ref> ** [[International Standard Name Identifier|''ISNI'' β International Standard Name Identifier]] ***[[ORCID|''ORCID'' β Open Researcher and Contributor ID]], a subset of the ''ISNI'', to uniquely identify [[Academic authorship|scientific and other academic authors]]. ***[[Digital Author Identification|''DAI'' β Digital Author Identification]], another subset of ''ISNI''. ** [[Global Research Identifier Database|''GRID'' β Global Research Identifier Database]] **[[Integrated Authority File|''GND'' β Integrated Authority File]] (''Gemeinsame Normdatei''), authority file for personal names, corporate bodies and subject headings. **[[KANTO β National Agent Data]] (''finaf''), authority file for persons and corporate bodies. **[[Library of Congress Control Number|''LCCN'' β Library of Congress Control Number]] **[[National Diet Library|''NDL'' β National Diet Library]] **[[Virtual International Authority File|''VIAF'' β Virtual International Authority File]], an aggregation of authority files currently focused on personal and corporate names. **[[WorldCat#Identities|''WorldCat/identities'']] * [[Bibliographic database|Bibliographic object]] identification systems and authorities: ** [[Digital object identifier|''DOI'' β Digital object identifier]] ** [[Lex (URN)|urn:lex]], for [[Legislative act|law-document]] identifiers, controlled by [[Legislature|local law authorities]]. ** [[International Standard Book Number|ISBN β International Standard Book Number]] ** [[ISSN|''ISSN'' β International Standard Serial Number]] * Other identification systems (for generic [[Named-entity recognition|named-entities]]) and authorities: ** [[GeoNames]] ** [[Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names|''TGN'' β Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names]] '''Standards for identified-object metadata''' (examples): [[vCard]], [[Dublin Core]], etc.
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