Structural Standards

• EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
• EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families)- an implementation of ISAAR-CPF
• Dublin Core
• VRA Core (Visual Resources Association)
• METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema)
• MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
• MADS (Metadata Authority Description Schema)

Content Standards

• DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
• ISAD(G) (General International Standard Archival Description, Second edition)
• ISAAR(CPF) (International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families, Second edition)
• CCO (Cataloging Cultural Objects)
• CDWA (Categories for the Description of Works of Art)

Archival Technology

• Open Archives Initiative (interoperability standards)
• The Collaborative Electronic Records Project between the Rockefeller Archive Center and the Smithsonian Institution Archives
• CLIR Report on Archival Management Software

Open Source Technology

• Archivists’ Toolkit
• Archon

Metadata

• Library of Congress metadata formats
• Digital Libraries Metadata Resources Extensive directory of metadata information from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions