Standards
There are various standards using different acronyms.
- ISAAR (CPF) — International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families. Published by the International Council on Archives
- MARC standards for authority records in machine-readable format.
- Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS), an XML schema for an authority element set that may be used to provide metadata about agents (people, organizations), events, and terms (topics, geographics, genres, etc.).
- Encoded Archival Context, an XML schema for authority records conforming to ISAAR(CPF)
Read more about this topic: Authority Control
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