The International Press Telecommunication Council (IPTC) creates and maintains sets of concepts – called a controlled vocabulary or a taxonomy – to be assigned as metadata values to news objects like text, photographs, graphics, audio and video files and streams. This allows for a consistent coding of news metadata across news providers and over the course of time.
Thomas Jefferson created this classification for his private library. He sold his library to the Librarian of Congress in 1815 where its classification was used until replaced by the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) in 1897.
"The Subjects Ontology is a polyhierarchical categorization of scholarly subject areas which are used for the indexing of content by Macmillan Science and Education."
"ITIL is a set of detailed practices for IT service management that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of business. It describes processes, procedures, tasks, and checklists which are not organization-specific but can be applied by an organization for establishing integration with the organization’s strategy, delivering value, and maintaining a minimum level of competency."
"The Collection Description Frequency Vocabulary provides a set of terms that can be used as values of the dcterms:accrualPeriodicity property in descriptions of collections. It has been developed in association with the Dublin Core Collections Application Profile (DC Collections AP) but this vocabulary is independent of that profile and the terms defined here may be referenced in other metadata descriptions and used as the values of other properties."
"This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 2 Traversal and Range, platform- and language-neutral interfaces that allow programs and scripts to dynamically traverse and identify a range of content in a document. The Document Object Model Level 2 Traversal and Range build on the Document Object Model Level 2 Core [DOM Level 2 Core]."
"DHA taxonomy is a knowledge organization system designed to describe resources and subjects within activities of Digital Humanities Austria."
"The Data Repositories taxonomy is a categorization of research data repositories that have been evaluated by the Scientific Data team as being suitable for archiving research data in conjunction with a Springer Nature publication."
