Relevant Papers

Citations

• 63 Proposal for Handling Sources and Citations
• 65 A Gradual Path to Standardised Citations
• 78 Nine Necessities in a GEDCOM Replacement
• 112 Desirable Citation Properties
• 114 Standardized Sources and Citation Templates

Information contained within sources

• 27 Requirement for representing uncertain characters in transcribed data
• 69 A proposed notation for improving the transcription and translation of genealogical sources
• 72 Persona Records
• 89 Sources, events, personae, individuals and graphs
• 94 Recording provenance using statements about statements

External Links

Listings of metadata standards

• Wikipedia
• JISC Digital Media

Archives 2 All (A2A)

• Validation
• Schema documentation
• Data model documentation

Archives & Records Association

• Guide to Standards

Archives Portal Europe

• Archives Portal Europe
• APEx project site
• APEnet project site (2009–2012)

BibTeX

• BibTeX
• Wikipedia entry

Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)

• CCO Portal
• See also VRA core below, a related standard owned by the Library of Congress

Citation Style Language (CSL)

• Citation Style Language (CSL)
• CSL variables

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

• DACS information page – note this standard is non-free

Dublin Core

• Dublin Core
• DC elements
• Wikipedia entry

Encoded Archival Description (EAD)

• Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
• EAD Crosswalks
• EAD3 Tag Library (pdf)

Evidence Explained

• Layered citations

Family Folklore Blog

• Growing a Healthy Family Tree
• Thoughts of Mastering Genealogical Proof: Chapter 3 Thorough Research
• Provenance of a Personal Collection – Archival Accession, Arrangement and Description
• Hierarchies Help Source Organisation, Analysis and Citation

GedcomX

• Record extensions
• Field types

International Council on Archives (ICA)

• ICA standards & guidelines
• General International Standard Archival Description

General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G))

• Description
• ISAD(G) (English language pdf)
• Links to translations

MARC standard for bibliographic data

• MARC standard for bibliographic data
• Field list

Metadata Working Group

• Metadata Working Group

ONIX - EDItEUR

• ONIX standard

Open Archives

• Open Archives API
• Open Cultuur Data API

Open Archives Initiative (OAI)

• Open Archives Initiative
• Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
• Wikipedia entry

STEMMA

• Citation
• Cite Seeing

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

• Text Encoding Initiative

The National Archives (TNA)

• The National Archives
• Discovery System
• Discovery System RESTful API
• Wikipedia entry
• Cataloguing and archives networks

VRA Core

• VRA Core
• See also CCO above, a similar standard owned by the Visual Resource Association

XMP

• XMP