Metadata standard identification

Through to gain interoperability we have define the specific standards that have been used by the institutions for our object.

# Title Object Provider Metadata
1 Woodstock Film IMDb SOMA
2 1969: the year that everything changed Book Library of Congress MARC-21
3 "And Babies?" Poster Smithsonian American Art Museum CIDOC-CRM
4 Abbie Hoffman Shouting Track audio MusicBrainz MMD XML Schema
5 Woodstock Tickets Ticket National Museum of American History CCO
6 Audience near the stage at the Woodstock Festival Photograph Special Collections and Univeristy Archives, University of Massachussets Amherst Libraries MODS
7 Woodstock: Music from the original Soundtrack an More Vinyl MusicBrainz MMD XML Schema
8 Piece of My Heart Song MusicBrainz MMD XML Schema
9 D'oh-in' the Wind TV Episode IMDb SOMA
10 Fender Stratocaster Guitar Europeana EDM


Standards involved

# Standard Features
1 SOMA Shared Online Media Archive,​SOMA, is a draft metadata standard for the exchange of metadata for multimedia files, based on ​Dublin Core 1.1​ and EBU Tech 3273 (Colorimetric Performance). SOMA is a collaboration between several NGOs to create an online media archive for use by community media centres.​
2 MARC-21 It's the most used among a family of standards designed in the 60s by the Library of Congress as machine-redeable cataloguing standards for the description of bibliographic records. By the 70s they became the US national standards and then employed as international ones. MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data is designed to be a carrier for bibliographic information about printed and manuscript textual materials, computer files, maps, music, continuing resources, visual materials, and mixed materials. Each record is composed by a leader, a directory, and most importantly of all, variable fields each composed by subfields and subfield codes. The standards present a generalized structure for records, but do not specify the content of the record and do not, in general, assign meaning to tags, indicators, or data element identifiers. Specification of these elements are provided by particular implementations of the standards.
3 CIDOC-CRM The International Committee for Documentation is a committee of the of the International Council of Museums. The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model(CRM) provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation.
4 MMD XML The MusicBrainz XML Metadata Format (MMD) is an XML based document format to represent music metadata. It has been designed to be easy to read, powerful and extensible. MMD is the official successor of the old RDF-based metadata format, which was popular among semantic web enthusiasts, but didn't have much acceptance otherwise because of its perceived complexity.
5 CCO Published by the American Library Association (ALA) in June 2006, CCO provides guidelines for selecting, ordering, and formatting data used to populate catalog records based on core categories in CDWA and VRA Core. CCO is a set of rules surrounding various elements from CDWA (which contains elements and rules) and VRA Core (which contains elements); it is more directly analogous to AACR and DACS.
6 MODS The Metadata Object Description Schema is a schema for a bibliographic element set that may be used to carry selected data from a subset of the MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records.
7 EDM The Europeana Data Model (EDM) is a new approach towards structuring and representing data delivered to Europeana by the various contributing cultural heritage institutions. The model aims at greater expressivity and flexibility in comparison to the current Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE). The design principles underlying the EDM are based on the core principles and best practices of the Semantic Web and Linked Data efforts to which Europeana wants to contribute. The model itself builds upon established standards like RDF(S), OAI-ORE, SKOS, and Dublin Core.