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XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The World Wide Web Consortium's XML 1.0 Specification of 1998 and several other related specifications—all of them free open standards—define XML.
Resource Description Framework
data model for describing resources on the Web
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
standardized set of metadata elements
MARC standards
digital formats for library cataloguing
BibTeX
BibTeX, sometimes stylized as '''''' (, ), is both a bibliographic flat-file database file format and a software program for processing these files to produce lists of references (citations). The BibTeX file format is a widely used standard with broad support by reference management software.
EndNote

BIBFRAME
BIBFRAME (Bibliographic Framework) is a data model for bibliographic description. BIBFRAME was designed to replace the MARC standards, and to use linked data principles to make bibliographic data more useful both within and outside the library community.
Citation Style Language
open XML-based language

ISO 2709
international standard
ONIX
publishing protocol
Metadata Object Description Schema
XML-based bibliographic description schema
RIS
standard file format for bibliographic data exchange