Standard
Name
Description
 Developer

 Schema

Music & Lyrics Markup Language The Music & Lyrics Markup Language (4ML) is describe smusic and lyrics.

4ML

Schema

Ad Markup Language Markup for Advertisements

Zedak, Inc.

Schema Example

Annotation Markup Language The combination of the structural skeleton and the DCS defines a virtual annotation markup language (AML)

Vassar College

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ASN.1 Markup Language XML encoding of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) ITU and ISO Schema
Astronomical Markup Language "AML, 'Astronomical Markup Language', is an XML language, aimed at being a standard exchange format for metadata in astronomy. AML now supports the following objects (in the object-oriented sense): astronomical object, article, table, set of tables, image, person, and project.

Damien Guillaume University of Ulster

Schema
Automation Markup Language AML (Automation Markup Language) is the primary internal language used by AutoMate.

UNISYN

Schema
Avatar Markup Language AML (Avatar Markup Language) is a new language based on XML, which encapsulates Text To Speech content, Facial Animation and Body Animation in a unified manner with appropriate synchronization information.

Computer Graphics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Schema
ABML
Anti-Body Markup Language Anti-Body Markup Language   Schema
Avatar Body Markup Language ABML (Avatar Body Markup Language) is a new language based on XML, which encapsulates Text To Speech content, Facial Animation and Body Animation in a unified manner with appropriate synchronization information. Computer Graphics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Schema
Active Cell Markup Language Active Cell
Markup Language
Abyan, Inc. Schema
Agent Communication Markup Langauge XML version of FIPA standards-draft Agent Communication Language, which combines the traditional agent communication concepts of KQML with the industry acceptable universal format of XML IBM Schema
Auto Catalog Markup Language Automotive Catalog Markup Language Clemson Schema
Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP) The Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP) is designed to support remote storage and access of program option, configuration and preference information. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)  Schema
Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 develops standards for cross-industry electronic exchange of business information.

ACS

Schema

Architecture Description Markup Language A Standard XML-Based Language for Describing Software Architectures to Enable Their Representation, Evaluation, and Analysis. (ref) Open Group Schema
Architecture Engineering and Construction Markup Language aecXML is an XML-based language used to represent information in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. This information may be resources such as projects, documents, materials, parts, organizations, professionals or activities such as proposals, design, estimating, scheduling and construction. International Alliance for Interoperability Schema
Avatar Face Markup Language ABML (Avatar Body Markup Language) is a new language based on XML, which encapsulates Text To Speech content, Facial Animation and Body Animation in a unified manner with appropriate synchronization information. Computer Graphics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Schema
Agriculture Markup Language AGML (Agriculture Markup Language) will be used primarily for financial purposes Argitrade Schema
Angband Help Markup Language AHML is very similar to HTML 3.2; it allows various formatting commands for text, and link files to other points in the file, or other files completely. Angband Schema
Artificial Intelligence Markup Language Artificial Intelligence Markup Language A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation Schema
Astronomical Instrument Markup Language The Astronomical Instrument Markup Language (AIML) is a domain-specific implementation of the Instrument Markup Language (IML). NASA Goddard and AppNet Inc., are developing AIML to command and control astronomical instruments NASA Goddard and AppNet Inc Schema
ATLAS Interchange Format

The Architecture and Tools for Linguistic Analysis Systems (ATLAS) Interchange Format (AIF) is intended to be a flexible and extensible file format that will facilitate widespread exchange and reuse of annotation data. ATLAS addresses an array of applications including corpus construction, evaluation infrastructure, and multi-modal visualization.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

Mitre

Schema
AL3 One EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) standard that ACORD develops, known as AL3, is focused on the communication between property/casualty organizations, their agents and other trading partners. 

Acord

Schema

Another Markup Language Another Markup Language describes communication network models. University of Calgary TeleSim Project Schema
Annotations Annotea is a LEAD (Live Early Adoption and Demonstration) project enhancing the W3C collaboration environment with shared annotations. W3C Schema
Anatomy Markup Language AnatML is a language for storing geometric information and documentation obtained as part of the musculoskeletal modelling project. Biomedical Engineering Research Group in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand Schema
Affective Presentation Markup Language Affective Presentation Markup Language is a language, which conveys meanings, intentions and non-verbal communication.

University of Rome, ITALY

Schema
Application Markup Language The Application Markup Language (appML) describes distributed applications and programs.

Application Markup Language

Schema
ATLAS Query Language

The Architecture and Tools for Linguistic Analysis Systems (ATLAS) Query Language (AQL) is is a query language for ATLAS Interchange Format (AIF), which is intended to be a flexible and extensible file format that will facilitate widespread exchange and reuse of annotation data. ATLAS addresses an array of applications including corpus construction, evaluation infrastructure, and multi-modal visualization.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

Mitre

Schema
A P3P Exhange Language This document complements the P3P1.0 specification by specifying a language for describing collections of preferences regarding P3P policies between P3P agents.

W3C

Schema
Active Rule Markup Language Active Rule Markup Language (ARML) for Sharing a Rules among Active Information Management System

School of Engineering, Information and Communications University (ICU), KOREA

Schema
Application Representation Markup Language ARML (Application Representation Markup Language) is Nextair's open architecture patent-pending technology for completely describing an application without needing to know how to program the device.

Nextair, Inc.

Schema
Abstract State Machine Language AsmL is the Abstract State Machine Language. It is an executable specification language based on the theory of Abstract State Machines.

Microsoft, Inc.

Schema
Automatic Site Markup Language Automatic Site Markup Language is a markup language for HTML.

Dartmouth Experimental Visualization Laboratory (DEVLAB)

Schema
American Society for Testing and Materials Healthcare American Society for Testing and Materials Healthcare (ASTM Healthercare) is a langauge for prescriptions, discharge summaries, encounter notes, operative reports, diagnostic imaging reports and the HCFA 1500 form for Medicare reimbursements.

American Society for Testing and Materials

 
schema (clinical header)
schema (operative report)
schema (pathology report)
schema (radiology report)
schema (radiation therapy summary)
schema (admission note)
schame (physical history)
schema (discharge summary)
schema (dicom)
schema (dicom base)
schema (dicom elements)
Audio Text Markup Language Audio Text Markup Language (ATML) for creating audio pages on the World Wide Web.

Rutgers University

Schema
ANDES Text Markup Language ANDES Test Markup Language is a language for management and delivery of distance education courses

University of Southern California

Schema
Automated Test Markup Language Automated Test Markup Language

Schema
Authorities Markup Language The Authorities Markup Language (AuthoritiesML) is a format for the interchange of UNIMARC authority records between applications.

Ministere de la culture et de la communication (France), Board of Research and Technology

Schema
Aroma Text Markup Language Aroma Text Markup Language (ATML) describes smells over the Internet for olfactory displays

Real Aroma, Inc.

Schema
Augmented World Modeling Language A The Augmented World Modeling Language models geographic locatoin and geometry of objects, as well as symbolic descriptors of objects such as room numbers and explicit relationships between objects, such as the part-of relation.

Fakultät Informatik

Schema
Annotated Extensible Markup Language Simply an annotated version of XML

W3C

Schema
Allure Extensible Markup Language The ALURe (Aggregation and Logging of User Requests) XML (AXML) defines a grammatical standard for gathering from usability testing and provides feedback to the developers regarding how the user interacts with the application.

Blue Sky Software, Inc.

Schema
Array Extensible Markup Language The MGED project is charged with developing a consensus based standard for exchanging and storing data from microarray experiments.

MGED

Schema
Article Extensible Markup Language AXML is an extension of XML for electronic markup of hard copy material

Astronomical Data Center NASA

Schema
Bean Markup Language Bean Markup Language (BML) is an XML-based component configuration or wiring language customized for the JavaBean component model.

IBM

Schema
Berylium Markup Language The Berylium Markup Language is a powerful HTML replacement that allows you to insert formatting, links and other objects into the text you type on berylium sites.

Berylium, Inc.

Schema
Better Markup Language BML is a server-side markup language designed to ease a large website and server-side programming.

Brad Fitz, Inc.

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Bibliography Markup Language The Bibliography Markup Language encodes bibliographies similar to BibTex

TeamXWeb, University of Munich

Schema
Binary Markup Language BML is a binary version of XML, it carries the same information, although using a binary encoding technique.

ebXML Project, UN/CEFACT and OASIS

Schema
Broadcast Markup Language Broadcast Markup Language (BML) is an XML-based standard developed by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB). It was adopted in 1999 as a Japanese standard ARIB STD B-24 "Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting."

Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB)

Schema
Banner Markup Language BannerML is a language for creating user-friendly descriptions of products advertised in Internet banners.

Cogitum, Inc.

Schema
Building Construction eXtensible Markup Language The eConstruct project aims to develop, implement, demonstrate and disseminate a new Communication Technology for the European Building-Construction industry, called Building-Construction eXtensible Mark-up Language (bcXML).

eConstruction

Schema
Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol A generic application protocol framework for connection-oriented, asynchronous interactions.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Schema
Board Game Markup Language BGML (Board game markup language) is an XML document type for go game (and ultimately all other board games) records/databases.

Virtual Intelligence™ Lab

Schema
Broadcast HyperText Markup Language The Broadcast HyperText Markup Language (BHTML) defines the application programming interfaces for a Digital Television Application Software Environment (DASE) compliant receiver.

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) ATSC T3/S17 specialist group

Schema
Bibliography Markup Language The Bibliography Markup Language (BiblioML) is a format the interchange of UNIMARC bibliographic records between applications.

Ministere de la culture et de la communication (France), Board of Research and Technology

Schema
BIOpolymer Markup Language BIOML allows the full specification of all experimental information known about molecular entities composed of biopolymers, for example, proteins and genes

BIOPolymer Markup Language

Schema Viewer
Bank Internet Pay System The Bank Internet Pay System (BIPS) enables payments through banks over the Internet

Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC)

Schema
BizCodes Initiative BizCodes Initiative is focused on promoting the concept of a universal reference system for XML based eBusiness that transcends individual schemas and industry specific exchange formats to provide a true 'lingua franca' for global eBusiness interchanges.

XML-EDI

Schema
BizTalk BizTalk™ Framework is language for business-to-business electronic commerce.

Microsoft, Inc.

Schema

Bureau of Land Management XML

In cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), POSC constructed a set of sample files showing how several regulatory forms based upon the 625 transaction set could be represented using XML technologies.

Petrochemical Open Software Corporation (POSC)

Schema (Notice of Staking)
Schema (Application for Permit to Drill)
Schema (Well Completion or Recompletion Report and Log)
Business Process Modeling Language The Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) is a meta-language for the modeling of business processes, just as XML is a meta-language for the modeling of business data.

Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI)

Schema
Business Rules Markup Language XML Rule Interlingua for Agent Communication, based on Courteous/Ordinary Logic Programs.

IBM, Inc. AlphaWorks

Schema
Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language TheBioinformatic Sequence Markup Language (BSML) encodes biological sequence information and includes graphical representations of biologically meaningful objects such as sequences, genes, electrophoresis gels, and multiple alignments..

LabBook, Inc.

Schema
Chemical Markup Language The Chemical Markup Language (CML) descibes molecules. It covers disciplines from macromolecular sequences to inorganic molecules and quantum chemistry.

Chemical Markup Language

Schema
Commerce eXtensible Markup Language cXML is a streamlined protocol intended for consistent communication of business documents between procurement applications, e-commerce hubs and suppliers.

Commerce XML Organization

Schema
Chess Markup Language Chess Markup Language.

Chess City Magazine

Schema
CaseXML
CASE XML-Based Transfer Format CDIF is a Family of Standards that lays out a single architecture for exchanging information between modelling tools, and between repositories, and defines the interfaces of the components to implement this architecture.

CDIF Electronic Industries Alliance

Schema
Cave Description Language CaveScript is the generic name of a cave survey and map data format that could store all the information about a cave survey or an entire cave map

Speleonics, Inc.

Schema (Cave survery)
Schema (Cave Map)
XML Common Business Library The XML Common Business Library (xCBL) is a set of XML building blocks and a document framework that allows the creation of robust, reusable, XML documents to facilitate global trading.

CommerceOne, Inc.

Schema
CBML
Case Based Markup Language Earlier research has produced version 1.0 of a Case Based Markup Language which attempts to mark up cases in XML to enable distributed computing.

Trinity College, Dublin, IRELAND

Schema
Clinical Document Architecture Health Level Seven, Inc. (HL7) has developed the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) for the healthcare industry.

Health Level 7

Schema
Channel Definition Format CDF (Channel Definition Format) is the proposed open industry standard for data definition of content to be pushed across the Internet. CDF is an application of XML, which is a subset of SGML, that specifies how data can be automatically broadcast from any web server to compatible receiver programs on client computers requesting such broadcasts.

Microsoft, Inc.

Schema
Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium

The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standards describe FDA safety domain metadata models and an XML DTD for clinical data interchange.

The CDISC standards describe three major information components relating to a clinical trial: (1) clinical study metadata (item definitions and protocol), (2) clinical study administrative data (users and access privileges) and (3) clinical study data (complete record of patient data and audit trail).

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium

Schema
Cell Markup Language CellML stores and exchanges computer-based biological models.

Physiome Sciences Inc.

Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland, NEW ZELAND

Schema
Chess Markup Language Chess Markup Language.

Andreas Saremba

Schema
Chord Markup Language ChordML represents music synoptically. ChordML is human-readable and stores chords, lyrics, repetition and metainformation about a music. ChordML does not intend to be a notational format that describes a music completely. Instead, it narrows its objectives essentially capturing music chords

ChordML

Schema
Chord Query Language ChordQL is the query language for ChordML. ChordML represents music synoptically. ChordML is human-readable and stores chords, lyrics, repetition and metainformation about a music. ChordML does not intend to be a notational format that describes a music completely. Instead, it narrows its objectives essentially capturing music chords

ChordML

Schema
Common Information Model This document defines an XML grammar, written in DTD (Document Type Definition), which can be used both to represent CIM declarations (Classes, Instances and Qualifiers) and CIM Messages for use by the CIM mapping onto HTTP.

Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF)

Schema

CIML

(see xCIL)

Customer Identity Markup Language Customer Identity Markup Language

MSI Business Solutions Pty. Ltd

Schema

Component Information Dictionary Specification

 

The aim of the Component Information Dictionary Standard is to provide authors and users of component information with a computer sensible dictionary of characteristic properties of components.

Electronic Component Information eXchange (ECIX)

Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc.

Schema

Chemical Industry Data eXchange

 

The Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX) eStandards is an open standard for business-to-business and business-to-marketplace data exchange in the chemical industry.

Chemical Industry Data eXchange

BASF

Dow

DuPont

Schema
eXtensible Customer Information Language Although name and address data is the key identifier of a customer, other data
helps to uniquely identify a customer. Customer addresses frequently change and it is
not trivial to link the customer across multiple addresses with just name information.

OASIS

Schema
Codes for Language Transformationl Codes for Language Transformation.

Drogoman

Schema
Common Name Resolution Protocol The Common Name Resolution Protocol (CNRP) is to define a "common name" - a word or a phrase, without imposed syntactic structure, that may be associated with a resource.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Schema
Comics Markup Langauge Comics Markup Langauge (ComicsML) is a language for comic strips.

Jason McIntosh

Schema
Covad xLink An XML-based application programming interface to enable flow-through DSL provisioning between Covad and its channel partners to create a seamless supply chain
This platform allows channel partners to quickly & easily add DSL to their product portfolio This platform is critical for Covad to scale its business

Covad, Inc.

Schema
Call Processing Language The Call Processing Language (CPL) is a language that can be used to describe and control Internet telephony services.t

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Schema
Customer Profile Exchange CPExchange, Customer Profile Exchange, hosted by IDEAlliance, offers a vendor-neutral, open standard for facilitating the privacy-enabled interchange of customer information across disparate enterprise applications and systems.

IDEAlliance

Schema
Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. Tutorials, books, mailing lists for users, etc. can be found on the "learning CSS" page.

W3C

Schema
Curricula Vitae Markup Language This language will allow exchanges of complete profiles and resumes in the RH industry (work experience, education, skills, identity, etc.) Candidates will also be able to use this DTD to apply for a job.

Schema
Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange The Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) is a specification that describes metadata interchange among data warehousing, business intelligence, knowledge management and portal technologies.

Object Management Group (OMG)

Schema
Open Cyc OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc(r) knowledge base (artificial intelligence). Developers can use CycML to exchange knowledge with one another, and CycML will also allow the KB contents to be imported and exported for archiving.

Cycorp, Inc.

Schema
Dynamic Markup Language The Dynamic Markup Language (DML) is designed specifically for object based graphics construction and the development of user interfaces. It bears some similarities to HTML, but includes extensions that provide support for calculations, argument passing, and variable storage.

Rocklyte, Inc.

Schema
Software
DARPA Agent Markup Language Language for Internet Agents.The DAML group combined efforts with the the Ontology Inference Layer (OIL).

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Schema (DAML+OIL)
Data Link for Intermediaries Markup Language The Data Link for Intermediaries Markup Language (DALIML) allows the exchange of data necessary for the correct amount of U.S. tax to be withheld from payments of U.S. source dividends, interest, and similar types of income.

Data Link for Intermediaries

Schema
Distributed Information Systems for Data Acquisition DAQ & XML daqXML is a language to describe instruments and measures and will be used in the design, the deployment and the operations of small to large, distributed and heterogeneous data acquisition systems

Advance, Inc.

Schema
Distributed Annotation System The distributed annotation system (DAS) is a client-server system in which a single client integrates information from multiple servers. It allows a single machine to gather up genome annotation information from multiple distant web sites, collate the information, and display it to the user in a single view. Little coordination is needed among the various information providers.

BioDAS

Schema
Distributed Authoring and Versioning Searching and Locating The Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol [also see WEBDAV] defines simple mechanisms to assign and retrieve values for properties. DASL presents scenarios for a WebDAV extension to support efficient searching for resources based on WEBDAV properties and content. These scenarios are intended to suggest some of the uses that DASL could be put to. This may in turn motivate decisions on what is essential to DASL and what may be considered extra.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Schema
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative The Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Series began in 1995 with an invitational workshop which brought together librarians, digital library researchers, content experts, and text-markup experts to promote better discovery standards for electronic resources. .

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

Schema
Data Documentation Initiative The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an effort to establish an international criterion and methodology for the content, presentation, transport, and preservation of "metadata" about datasets in the social and behavioral sciences.

Data Documentation Initiative

Schema
Web Versioning and Configuration Management It has become clear that while versioning functionality alone (WebDAV) is useful for a range of content authoring scenarios involving one, or a small set of resources, versioning alone is insufficient for managing larger sets of content. DeltaV will define extensions to HTTP and the WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol necessary to enable distributed Web authoring tools to perform, in an interoperable manner, versioning and configuration management of Web resources.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Schema
DIG35
DIG35 Multimedia Standard for Digital Images The overall goal of the DIG35 initiative is to define a standard set of metadata for digital images that will improve the semantic interoperability between devices, services and software.

Digital Imaging Group (DIG)

Schema
Description Logic Markup Language DLML is not a language but rather a system of DTDs that allows to encode many (if not all) description logics in the same framework.

Description Logics Markup Language

Schema
Dialogue Moves Markup Language The Dialogue Moves Markup Language is a standard XML messaging interface between components of natural language dialog systems.

IBM Alphaworks

Schema
Document Book DocBook is an XML/SGML vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).

OASIS

Schema
DocScope DocScope is a medical information tool that is as natural and easy for physicians to use as the spreadsheet is for accountants.

Minoru Development Corp.

Schema

United States Department of Defense Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment XML Repository

The DoD Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) runs an XML registry for the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) Common Operating Environment

Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

Schema

DPRL