Table 1.

Metadata Authorities and Standards

Authority Name	Description	Link to Resource
EAC-CPF	Encoded Archival Context for Corporations, Persons and Families	http://www2.archivists.org/groups/technical-subcommittee-on-eac-cpf/encoded-archival-context-corporate-bodies-persons-and-families-eac-cpf
Darwin Core	Data standard for describing and sharing biodiversity information.	http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/
FGDC-Biological Profile	Describes Federal Geospatial datasets.	http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/geospatial-metadata-standards
Ecological Metadata Language (EML)	The Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata standard developed for the ecology discipline.	http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/#external/emlparser/docs/eml-2.1.1/index.html
Audubon Core	The Audubon Core is a set of vocabularies designed to represent metadata for biodiversity multimedia resources and collections.	http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/Audubon_Core_Structure