Please note that this list only shows a small selection of available resources.

Dublin Core
For: any data

Darwin Core
For: biodiversity data
GBIF spreadsheet templates for occurrence data, checklist data, sampling event data and resource metadata.
List of more specific templates by German data centers, incl. molecular data.

ABCD
Access to Biological Collection Data
For: biodiversity data

EML
Ecological Metadata Language
For: ecological data; Data format: XML

ISO 19115
For: geosciences; Data format: Dublin Core

INSPIRE
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe
For: spatial data sets

MIxS
Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence
For: sequence data

MIAPPE
Minimum Information About Plant Phenotyping Experiments
For: plant phenotyping experiments
MIAPPE checklist and data model v.1.1

MIABIS
Minimum Information About BIobank data Sharing
For: biobanks, research on samples and associated data

MIAME
Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment
For: microarrays; Data format: MAGE-TAB format (MicroArray Gene Expression Tabular)

SDD
Structured Descriptive Data
For: descriptive data