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The Natural History Collections and Culture Collection BGBM, DSMZ, MfN, SGN, SMNS, SNSB, ZFMK with their evolving GFBio Collection Data Centers/ Data Archives are partners of several national and international initiatives and projects developing and using data exchange protocols and standards. During the first months of the GFBio project the partners collected and evaluated relevant technical documentations of existing domain-specific data exchange formats, interfaces and protocols with relevance for the interaction and harmonization between collection management systems and archive infrastructure as a whole (see table below). This table deals with collection standards, but it was decided to include '''SDD''', '''EML''' and '''GML''' as well, as they are used and closely connected to the work within GFBio Collection Data Centers/ Data Archives. 

This documentation is part of the process to identify existing and to install and integrate new data exchange mechanisms and protocols appropriate for the GFBio network. It provides useful information for software developers and data scientists to set up and run GFBio agreed standard exchange software solutions at the GFBio Collection Data Centers.



==== Table: Data exchange standards, protocols and formats relevant for the collection data domain within the GFBio network ====


'''''Note:''' Cells highlighted in grey indicate standards and protocols for which the GFBio Collection Data Centers/ Archives have expertise or which they use directly or indirectly.'' 


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! style="width:5%" | Standard/ Protocol - Acronym
! style="width:10%" class="unsortable" | Full name/ Version
! style="width:15%" class="unsortable" | Short description
! style="width:6%" class="unsortable" | Documentation/ Schema (URL)
! style="width:5%" | Category 
! style="width:3%" | Data domain
! style="width:3%" class="unsortable" | Status
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! style="width:1%" class="unsortable" | Notes/ References 

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| '''ABCD 2.06''' || Access to Biological Collections Databases v2.06 (2007-06-13) || Standard for the access to and exchange of data about specimens and observations || [http://rs.tdwg.org/abcd/2.06/ABCD_2.06.xsd XSD File]; [http://www.bgbm.org/tdwg/codata/schema/ABCD_2.06/HTML/ABCD_2.06.html Schema] || Data Exchange Standard|| Collection Archives || accepted ([http://www.tdwg.org/standards/ TDWG]) || BGBM, DSMZ, MfN, SGN, SMNS, SNSB, ZFMK||<ref name="ABCD 2.06">[http://www.tdwg.org/standards/115/ ABCD 2.06 TDWG Standard]</ref> <ref name="DwC_ABCD_mapping" />
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| '''ABCD 2.1''' || Access to Biological Collections Databases v2.1 (2014-05) || Enhanced version developed for GGBN and BiNHum, but it will not be used by GBIF ||[http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/ABCD_2.1/ABCD_2.1.xsd XSD File]; [http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/ABCD_2.1/ABCD_2.1.html Schema] || Data Exchange Standard|| Collection Archives || published || BGBM, MfN, SMNS, SNSB, ZSMK||
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| '''ABCDDNA''' || DNA Extension for ABCD v2.06 (2009-05-27)|| Standardised XML Schema extension for ABCD to facilitate storage and exchange of data related to DNA collection units. It offers a rudimentary set of DNA-specific data (Sequences).|| [http://rs.tdwg.org/abcd/2.06/ABCD_2.06.xsd XSD File]; [http://www.dnabank-network.org/schemas/ABCDDNA/ABCDDNA.xml Schema]  || Data Exchange Standard  || Collection Archives  ||draft ([http://www.tdwg.org/ TDWG])  || BGBM, DSMZ, SGN, SNSB (ZSM), ZFMK ||<ref name="ABCDDNA">[http://www.tdwg.org/standards/640/ ABCDDNA TDWG Draft Standard];[http://wiki.bgbm.org/dnabankwiki/index.php/ABCDDNA wiki-page documenting ABCDDNA]</ref>
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| '''ABCDEFG''' || Access to Biological Collection Databases Extended for Geosciences || Standard developed for use with palaeontological, mineralogical and geological digitalized collection data || [https://doi.org/10.7479/pwnr-sh74 XSD File]; [http://www.geocase.eu/sites/default/documentation/html/efg.html Schema]  || Data Exchange Standard || Collection Archives || proposed ([http://www.tdwg.org/ TDWG]) || BGBM, DSMZ, MfN, SGN, SMNS, SNSB, ZFMK|| <ref name="Petersen_et_al_2018">[https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-21-47-2018 Petersen et al. 2018]</ref> <ref name="ABCDEFG"> [http://www.geocase.eu/efg GeoCASe Website - EFG]; [http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/article/view/86 Kiessling et al., 2006 Proceedings of TDWG]</ref>
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|'''ABCDHISPID''' || Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data (HISPID). HISPID5 was presented during TDWG 2007||HISPID5 is a file format serving as extension for ABCD v2.06. It was developed by Australian herbaria to enable the interchange of plant specimen data. ||[http://hiscom.rbg.vic.gov.au/wiki/HISPID/ABCD_Workshop_Executive_SummaryDocumentation Documentation] ; [https://code.google.com/p/hispid/downloads/list google code ZIP] ||Data Exchange Standard ||Collection Archives || published || (BGBM expertise; HISPID is used in Australia) ||<ref name=ABCDHISPID>[Conn, R.J. (ed.) (1996). HISPID3. Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data. (Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria at Royal Botanic Gardens: Sydney). Viewed at http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/HISCOM/HISPID/HISPID3/H3.html on 18 June 2007]</ref>
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| '''BioCASE UAP'''<ref>usually only referred to as "BioCASE Protocol"</ref>|| Unitlevel Access Protocol v1.31 (2012-11-14) || The protocol used in the BioCASE unit-level network for communication between the central software and the wrapper software sitting on top of the providers databases. || [http://www.biocase.org/products/protocols/index.shtml Documentation] [http://www.bgbm.org/biodivinf/Schema/protocol_1_31.xsd XSD] || Data Exchange Protocol || Collection Archives|| published || BGBM, DSMZ, MfN, SGN, SMNS, SNSB, ZFMK || <ref name="biocase_tapir">BioCASE Protocol and Tapir are very similar</ref>
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| '''DC''' || Dublin Core: Metadata Element Set<ref name="dc_sets">Dublin Core used to consist of 2 different sets of terms: ''Simple Dublin Core'' and ''Qualified Dublin Core''. The ''Simple Dublin Core'' consists of 15 terms and is also called ''Dublin Core Metadata Element Set''. In 2012 those two sets have been combined and simplified as ''<abbr title="Dublin Core Metadata Initiative">DCMI</abbr> Metadata Terms''. The ''Simple Dublin Core'' set is still valid while the ''Qualified Dublin Core'' set has been deprecated.</ref> v1.1 (2013-06-13)|| Dublin Core is a Metadata Standard that was originally developed for libraries but its elements have been reused in many other formats as well, e.g. DWC. Dublin Core Metadata Element Set contains 15 elements. || [http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ Documentation] [http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/simpledc20021212.xsd XSD] || Metadata Standard || Literature; General || [http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=52142 ISO Standard]|| (BGBM, DSMZ, MfN, SGN, SMNS, SNSB, ZFMK) || <ref name="dc_name">little known fact: Dublin Core is named after Dublin, Ohio, USA and not after Dublin, Ireland</ref>
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| '''DC''' || Dublin Core: <abbr title="Dublin Core Metadata Initiative">DCMI</abbr> Metadata Terms<ref name="dc_sets" /> v1.0 (2012-06-14)|| DCMI Metadata Terms contains 55 terms including the 15 terms from the Metadata Element Set ("Simple Dublin Core") || [http://dublincore.org/documents/2012/06/14/dcmi-terms Documentation] [http://dublincore.org/2012/06/14/dcterms.rdf RDF] || Metadata Standard || Literature; General || DCMI Recommendation|| - || <ref name="dc_name"/>
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|| '''DELTA format''' || DEscription Language for TAxonomy || The DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) encodes taxonomic descriptions for computer processing and can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, cladistic or phenetic classifications, and information-retrieval systems. || [http://delta-intkey.com/www/standard.htm DELTA Format Overview ] || Data Exchange Standard || Collection Archives || accepted ([http://www.tdwg.org/ TDWG]) || SNSB ||<ref name="DELTA format">[http://delta-intkey.com/www/overview.htm DELTA System Overview ]</ref>
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| '''DiGIR''' || Distributed Generic Information Retrieval (DiGIR) (v1.5,2003) || DiGIR is a protocol for single point access to distributed data sources. Based on HTTP, XML, and UDDI. '''PLEASE NOTE: DiGIR is out-dated and was replaced by TAPIR and BioCASE UAP!''' || [http://digir.sourceforge.net/schema/protocol/2003/1.0/digir.xsd XML-Schema Documents] || Data Exchange Protocol || Collection Archives || out-dated  || out-dated || <ref name="DiGIR">[http://digir.sourceforge.net/ More information about DiGIR, last modification in 2005];[http://sourceforge.net/projects/digir/ Also see the DiGIR collaboration site, for downloadable files, source code (CVS), the developers' email list, etc.]</ref>
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| '''DwC'''|| Darwin Core (2013-10-25) ||The Darwin Core is body of standards. It includes a glossary of terms intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity by providing reference definitions, examples, and commentaries. The Darwin Core is primarily based on taxa, their occurrence in nature as documented by observations, specimens, and samples, and related information.  || [http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/ All References/ Schemas available]; [https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/ToolsAndApplications Darwin Core Resources]|| Data Exchange Standard|| Collection Archives; General || accepted ([http://www.tdwg.org/standards/ TDWG])||BGBM, DSMZ, MfN, SGN, SMNS, SNSB, ZFMK||<ref name="DwC">[http://www.tdwg.org/standards/450/ DWC TDWG Standard]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Core Wikipedia Darwin Core]; [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0029715 Wieczorek et al. 2012, PLOS]; [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964728/pdf/biodiversity_data_journal-2-e1039.pdf Baker et al. 2014, Biodiversity Data Journal] </ref> <ref name="DwC_ABCD_mapping">[http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/history/dwctoabcd/ DwC-ABCD Mapping]</ref>
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|'''EAC-CPF'''|| Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families v2-2003; EAC, Encoded Archival Context (short); || EAC-CPF - is an XML-Schema. It provides a grammar for encoding names of creators of archival materials and related information. EAC-CPF is an addition to EAD || [http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/eac-cpf-schemas.html Schemas Overview]; [http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/schema/cpf.xsd XSD File]|| Data Exchange Standard || Biodiversity Literature; Collection Archives || adopted standard of SAA ([http://www2.archivists.org/ Society of American Archivists]); full review of standard is planned for 2015 ||- ||<ref name=EAC-CPF>[http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/about.html General information about EAC-CPF]</ref>
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|'''EAD''' || Encoded Archival Description v2002|| EAD is a non-proprietary de facto standard for the encoding of finding aids for use in a networked (online) environment published by the Library of Congress. || [http://www.loc.gov/ead/ Documentation]; [http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd XSD File]; [http://www.loc.gov/ead/eadschema.html Schema]|| Data Exchange Standard || Biodiversity Literature; Collection Archives || accepted [http://www.loc.gov/standards/ Library of Congress] ||- ||<ref name=EAD>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoded_Archival_Description Beschreibung]; [http://www.loc.gov/ead/ Documentation]</ref>
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| '''EDM''' || Europeana Data Model v5.2.5 (2014-05-22)||Model aiming at being an integration medium for collecting, connecting and enriching the descriptions provided by [http://www.europeana.eu/ Europeana] content providers ||[http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/EDM.xsd XSD File]; [http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/900548/0d0f6ec3-1905-4c4f-96c8-1d817c03123c Documentation/ Definition]; [[File:EDM.zip|thumb|EDM Schema (Europeana)]] || Metadata Standard|| Collection Archives || none ||(MfN, ZFMK, BGBM through [http://open-up.eu/ OpenUp!])||<ref name="EDM">[http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation EDM Documentation]</ref>
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|| '''EML''' || Ecological Metadata Language (v2.1.1, 2012-06-19)|| EML is as a set of XML Schema documents that allow for the structural expression of metadata necessary to document a typical data set in ecological sciences. || [https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/#external//emlparser/docs/eml-2.1.1/index.html EML Specification] || Metadata Standard || Collection Archives (Ecological Community) || ? || SGN ||<ref name="EML">[https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/#external//emlparser/docs/eml-2.1.1/eml-faq.html EML FAQ]</ref>
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| '''ESE''' || Europeana Semantic Elements v3.4.1 (2013-07-14)||A format, which provides a basic set of elements for describing objects in the cultural heritage domain in a way that is usable for Europeana [http://www.europeana.eu/ Europeana]||[http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/900548/2eee7beb-b9d8-4532-a089-8e8d6df38ce7 ESE Specifications]|| Metadata Standard || Collection Archives || none ||(MfN, ZFMK, BGBM previously through [http://open-up.eu/ OpenUp!])||<ref name="ESE">[http://pro.europeana.eu/ese-documentation/ ESE Documentation incl. xsd File], ESE will still be accepted as a metadata format for Europeana. It will be manually converted to EDM for use in the portal.</ref>
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| '''GGBN Data Standard''' || [http://www.ggbn.org/ggbn_portal/ Global Genome Biodiversity Network GGBN] defined a new data standard (2014-06-15)|| The GGBN Data Standard is a set of vocabularies designed to represent tissue, DNA or RNA samples associated to voucher specimens, tissue samples and collections. It is intended to be used with ABCD or Darwin Core and is not a stand-alone solution. || [http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/GGBN_Data_Standard GGBN Data Standard] || Data Exchange Standard  || Collection Archives (Genomic Data)  || published || BGBM, (MfN intends to use it soon)||<ref name=GGBN>[http://ggbn.org/ Website of Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN)]</ref>
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| '''GML''' || Geography Markup Language (v3.3.0, 2012–02-07) || "[GML] is an XML grammar for expressing geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for geographic transactions on the Internet."<ref name="gml-definition">http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml</ref> It is developed and maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)|| [https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=46568 Documentation] [http://schemas.opengis.net/gml/ Schema] || Data Exchange Standard || Geography || [http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=32554 ISO Standard (v3.2.1)] || - || <ref name="gml_notes">[http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml GML Official Website], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language Wikipedia Article on GML], Behr, Franz-Josef: [http://www.gis-news.de/papers/gml/ GML-basierte Kodierung von Geodaten] (German)</ref>
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| '''LIDO''' || Lightweight Information Describing Objects v1.0 (2010-11-08) || XML Schema for Contributing Content to Cultural Heritage Repositories || [http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0.xsd XSD File] [http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-specification.pdf Documentation]; [http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-schema-listing.html Schema] || Data Exchange Standard|| Collection Archives ||?  || BGBM, DSMZ, MfN, SGN, SMNS, SNSB, ZFMK through [http://www.biocase.org/news/news-item-44.shtml BioCASe] (MfN, BGBM, ZFMK through [http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/ DDB]) ||<ref name="LIDO">[http://network.icom.museum/cidoc/working-groups/data-harvesting-and-interchange/what-is-lido ICOM International Council of Museums - LIDO], LIDO (DDB): Lightweight Information Describing Objects (profile for the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek)</ref>
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| '''MADS'''|| Metadata Authority Description Schema v2.0 (2011-06-02) || XML schema for an authority element set that may be used to provide metadata about authorized forms of agents (e.g., people, organizations), events (e.g., conferences, meetings), and terms (e.g., topics, geographics, genres).||[http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads.xsd XSD File] [http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/mads-outline.html Schema]|| Data Exchange Standard || General || accepted ([http://www.loc.gov/standards/%20 Library of Congress])||-||-
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| '''MARCXML''' || MARC(Machine-Readable Cataloging)XML ||Framework for working with MARC data in a XML environment. ||[http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd XSD File] [http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xml/spy/spy.html Schema]|| Data Exchange Standard||  Literature || accepted ([http://www.loc.gov/standards/%20 Library of Congress])||-||<ref name="MARCXML">[http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/ MARCXML Official Website], incorporated into many other standards, e.g. OLEF</ref>
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| '''METS''' || Metadata Encoding & Transcription Standard v1.10 (2013-07-08) ||A standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library.||[http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets.xsd XSD File] [http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/docs/mets.v1-9.html Schema for v1.9]|| Data Exchange Standard|| Literature || accepted ([http://www.loc.gov/standards/%20 Library of Congress])||-||<ref name="METS">[http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/ METS Official Website], incorporated into many other standards, e.g. OLEF</ref>
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| '''MODS''' || Metadata Objects Description Data v3.5 (2013-07-08) ||Schema for a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, and particularly for library applications.||[http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-5.xsd XSD File] [http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-outline-3-5.html Schema]|| Data Exchange Standard|| General || accepted ([http://www.loc.gov/standards/%20 Library of Congress])||-||<ref name="MODS">[http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/ MODS Official Website], incorporated into many other standards, e.g. OLEF</ref>
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| '''NCD'''||Natural Collections Descriptions (2013-10-22) ||NCD is a proposed data standard for describing collections of natural history materials at the collection level; one NCD record describes one entire collection ||[http://www.tdwg.org/standards/312/ Documentation] || Data Exchange Standard|| Collection Archives || draft ([http://www.tdwg.org/standards/ TDWG])||?||<ref name="NCD">[http://www.tdwg.org/activities/ncd/ NCD TDWG Interest Group Page]</ref>
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| '''OAI-PMH'''|| Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting v2.0 (2002-06-14) || OAI-PMH is an XML based REST protocol for Metadata harvesting in a distributed network. It uses Dublin Core for a required minimal set of metadata but can be extended to be used with other XML based formates as well || [http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html Specification] [http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd XSD for responses] [http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines.htm Implementation Guidelines]|| Data Exchange Protocol (Harvesting) || General || published || BGBM, MfN, ZFMK through OpenUp! (Natural History Aggregator), PANGAEA, and BGBM, MfN through [http://www.bhl-europe.eu/ BHL-Europe] || <ref>Some other complementary XML formats are also provided by the OAI to enhance PHM, like [http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-provenance.htm Provenance] ([http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/provenance.xsd XSD]), [http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai-identifier.xsd OAI Identifier], [http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/friends.xsd Friends], [http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/1.1/eprints.xsd e-prints]. </ref>
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| '''OLEF''' || Open Literature Exchange Format v1.0 (2012-06-12) || Biodiversity literature exchange format developed/ in use by BHL-Europe ||  [http://www.bhle.eu/bhl-schema/v1/OLEF_v1.0.xsd XSD File]; [http://www.bhle.eu/bhl-schema/v1/ Schema]|| Data Exchange Standard || Biodiversity Literature || none || (MfN through [http://www.bhl-europe.eu/ BHLE])|| <ref name="OLEF">[http://de.slideshare.net/HeimoRainer/bhleuropemetadataharmonisationtdwg20111018kollerwhrainer OLEF presentation (Slideshare)]</ref>
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| '''pansimple DC''' ||PANGAEA Simple Indexing Format || Pansimple is an extended Dublin Core profile || [http://ws.pangaea.de/schemas/pansimple/pansimple.xsd XSD File] || Metadata Standard || Indexing || none || PANGAEA ||
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| '''PREMIS''' ||Preservation Metadata Maintenance Activity v2.2 (July 2012) || The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is the international standard for metadata to support the preservation of digital objects and ensure their long-term usability. || [http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v2/premis.xsd XSD File]; [http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/schemas.html Schema]; [http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v2/premis-2-2.pdf PDF Documentation] || Data Exchange Standard || - || accepted [http://www.loc.gov/standards/ Library of Congress] || - ||<ref name=PREMIS>[http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v2/premis-2-2.pdf PREMIS Documentation]; 
[http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/tools_for_premis.php List of other tools for PREMIS]</ref>
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| '''Rosetta''' || Rosetta (ExLibris) (2009-11-04)||Rosetta is a commercial product developed by ExLibris for the management of digital assets in libraries and academic environments, enabling institutions to create, manage, preserve, and share locally administered digital collections. || [http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/RosettaOverview Overview]; [http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/RosettaOverview Documentation] || ? || Biodiversity Literature ||? || - ||- |<ref name=Rosetta>[http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/RosettaOverview Overview Rosetta]</ref>
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|| '''SDD''' || Structured Descriptive Data (v1.1, March 2007; latest revision in 2010) || Goal of the SDD standard is to allow capture, transport, caching and archiving of descriptive data in relevant forms (e.g. natural language descriptions, dichotomous keys, raw data descriptions), using a platform- and application-independent, international standard. || [http://www.tdwg.org/standards/116/download/sdd-1.html Standard Description Download] and [http://rs.tdwg.org/UBIF/2006/Schema/SDD1.1rev5.zip '''SDD''' Schema files SDD1.1rev5]
 || Data Exchange Standard || Collection Archives; General || accepted ([http://www.tdwg.org/ TDWG]) || SNSB, (BGBM in EDIT-Project) ||<ref name="SDD">[https://github.com/tdwg/wiki-archive/blob/master/twiki/data/SDD/WebHome.txt SDD Wiki Archive]</ref>
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| '''Simple DwC'''|| Simple Darwin Core (2013-10-22) ||The Simple Darwin Core is a predefined subset of the terms that have common use across a wide variety of biodiversity applications. ||[http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/xsd/tdwg_dwc_simple.xsd XSD File] [http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/simple/ Documentation (TDWG)]|| Data Exchange Standard|| Collection Archives, General || accepted ([http://www.tdwg.org/standards/ TDWG])||?||<ref name="DC">[http://www.tdwg.org/standards/450/ Simple DWC, part of TDWG standard]</ref> <ref name="DwC_ABCD_mapping" />
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| '''TAPIR''' || TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval v1.0 (2010-05-05) || TAPIR is a Web Service protocol to perform queries across distributed databases of varied physical and logical structure || [http://www.tdwg.org/activities/tapir/specification Documentation] [http://rs.tdwg.org/tapir/1.0/schema/tdwg_tapir.xsd XSD] || Data Exchange Protocol || Collection Archives || accepted ([http://www.tdwg.org/standards/ TDWG])|| - || <ref name="biocase_tapir" /> <ref name="tapir_standard">[http://www.tdwg.org/standards/449/ TAPIR TDWG Standard], [http://www.tdwg.org/activities/tapir/ Tapir Task Group]</ref>
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'''Explanations:'''

'''Data Domain''' (values): Collection Archives; Biodiversity Literature; Literature; Geography; General

'''Standard/ Protocol Category''' (values): Data Exchange Standard (Def.: standard schema describing semantic of data elements and in some cases also the syntax, i. e. xml, RDF, CSV); Data Exchange Protocol (Def.: rule of communication enabling data exchange. It uses existing standard schemas); Metadata Standard (Def.: standard schema describing the overall content of a whole data set)

'''Status''': status in standardization, e.g. accepted, under review, proposed, none, draft, published, out-dated; standardization body

'''GFBio Collection Data Centers/ Data Archives – Expertise''': standards and protocols in use by GFBio Collection Data Centers; directly or (indirectly)

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