Vocabularies
The following vocabularies are widely used. Use of common vocabularies improves the ability of digital objects to be found when the repository is searched.
| Vocabulary | Used for |
| ISO 3166-1 http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes.htm |
Country codes |
| Art & Architecture (Getty) http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/about.html |
Subject terms |
| Dictionary of Irish Biography http://dib.cambridge.org/ |
Subject terms |
| Format List; Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/ |
Media types |
| GEMET http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/inspire_themes |
Geographical subject terms |
| Geonames www.geonames.org |
Place names |
| Getty Thesaurus of Geographic names http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html |
Non-Irish place names or geographical keywords |
| Getty Union List of Artists Names – ULAN http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/index.html |
Personal Names |
| HASSET https://hasset.ukdataservice.ac.uk/thesaurus-search.aspx |
Social Science Keywords |
| Iconclass https://rkd.nl/en/collections/services-tools/iconclass |
Subject terms |
| Irish Guidelines for Indexing Archives http://bit.ly/1bEVS0X |
Personal and Corporate Names |
| ISO 8601 http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/iso8601.htm |
Dates |
| ISO639 http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/language_codes.htm |
Language |
| Library of Congress name authorities (personal and corporate) http://authorities.loc.gov/help/name-auth.htm |
Personal and corporate names |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html |
Subject terms including temporal coverage |
| MARC country codes http://www.loc.gov/marc/countries/ |
Country Codes |
| MARC language codes http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/ |
Languages |
| National Register of Archives https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ |
Personal, corporate names and subject terms |
| Placenames database of Ireland www.logainm.ie |
Irish place names |
| RFC1766 https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt |
Language |
| UK Archival Thesarus (UKAT) http://www.ukat.org.uk/ |
Subject terms |
| Unesco Thesaurus http://databases.unesco.org/thesaurus/ |
Subject terms |
| W3.org (YYYY-MM-DD) http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date |
Dates |
| W3C Geo http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_geolocation.asp |
Longitude and Latitude |
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