| Scheme | Description | Elements and Refinements |
|---|---|---|
| AAT | Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus | Subject |
| AGIFT | Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus: a thesaurus of ambient functions and activities for use with the function element – developed by the National Archives of Australia | Function |
| AglsAgent | An encoding scheme for structuring agent descriptions in AGLS metadata – developed by the National Archives of Australia | Contributor
Creator Publisher |
| AglsAvail | An encoding scheme for describing accessibility characteristics of the person or organisation making non-electronic resources available – developed by the National Archives of Australia | Availability |
| AglsJuri | A list of all Australian jurisdictions for use with agent descriptions (see AGLSagent) and with the jurisdiction qualifier with the Coverage element – developed by the National Archives of Australia | Coverage
jurisdiction |
| agls-audience | A list of audience terms developed by the National Archives of Australia | Audience |
| agls-document | A controlled list of terms for describing document types for the documentType element refinement for the Type element – developed by the National Archives of Australia | Type
documentType |
| agls-service | A controlled list of terms for describing service types for the serviceType refinement for the Type element – developed by the National Archives of Australia | Type
serviceType |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification: a list of terms for classifying industry types, for use with the Audience element – developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics | Audience |
| APAIS | A subject thesaurus primarily for the humanities and social sciences – developed by the National Library of Australia for use with the Australian Public Affairs Information Service | Subject |
| ASCO | Australian Standard Classification of Occupations, developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics | Audience |
| DCMIPeriod | An scheme for structuring start and end dates, using the Dublin Core Structured Values syntax (DCSV) – developed by Dr. Simon Cox of CSIRO for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) | Coverage
temporal Date valid |
| EdNA | A list of audience terms developed by the Education Network Australia for use in describing education resources | Audience |
| GOLD | The Government On-Line Directory: an X.500 directory database of Commonwealth government agency and senior level staff | Contributor
Creator Publisher |
| IMT | Internet Media Types: a list of content types and subtypes for describing formats of electronic/online/virtual resources – developed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | Format |
| ISBN | International Standard Book Number: a way of uniquely identifying published books, virtual or physical – defined by ISO2108. | Identifier
Source |
| ISO 8601 | A scheme for encoding dates, developed in 1988: dates are in the format YYYYMMDD and may consist of only a year, or a year and a month, the encoding of hours, minutes and seconds as well as time zones is also allowed
AGLS uses the World Wide Web Consortium implementation of ISO8601 which uses dashes (-) between components eg 2002-01-10 | Coverage
temporal Date created
issued modified |
| ISSN | International Standard Serial Number: a way of uniquely identifying periodical publications, physical and virtual – defined by ISO3297 | Identifier
Source |
| JEL | A classification scheme of economic subject terms developed by the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) | Subject |
| KAAA | Keyword AAA: a thesaurus of function and activity terms that are common across governments – originally developed by State Records NSW, and modified for use in Commonwealth agencies by the National Archives of Australia | Function |
| LCSH | Library of Congress Subject Headings: a list of subject terms | Subject |
| LGA | A list of local government area names for use with the jurisdiction qualifier for the Coverage element, or in agent descriptions | Coverage
jurisdiction |
| MeSH | Medical Subject Headings: a list of subject terms for describing medical subjects | Subject |
| Physical | An indication that the values in the Format element refer to physical characteristics of a physical object, eg weight, height, length, breadth, etc | Format |
| RFC3066 | An internet standard for the identification of languages, RFC3066 combines ISO639 and ISO3166 | Language |
| ScOT | Schools Online Thesaurus is a subject vocabulary that allows online curriculum resources to be described and discovered using subject terms from Australian and New Zealand K-12 curriculum | Subject |
| SLA | A list of statistical local areas (basically local government divisions) for use in agent descriptions or with the jurisdiction qualifier for the Coverage element – developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics | Coverage
jurisdiction |
| TAGS | Thesaurus of Australian Government Subjects, developed by the National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) for use with the Subject element – based on a Canadian government subject thesaurus | Subject |
| TGN | Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names | Coverage
spatial |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier: a scheme for encoding world wide web addresses, includes Uniform Resource Locators (URL) and Uniform Resource Name (URN) – defined by RFC 2396 | Identifier
Relation isBasedOn/isBasisFor
Rights
isFormatOf/hasFormat isPartOf/hasPart isReplacedBy/replaces isRequiredBy/requires isVersionOf/hasVersion references/isReferencedBy Source |
| VO | A subject thesaurus of descriptive terms that reflect the themes and resources within Victoria Online (VO), the Victorian Government's online portal | Subject |