Standards

Category type	Standard	Community	Profile (in HTML)	Current community agreed Version (in PDF)
Communication	OAI-PMH	WO	DARE use of OAI-PMH	1.2
	SUSHI	WO	SURFshare use of Usage Statistics Exchange	in development

Data formats	OpenURL Context Objects(usage events)	WO	SURFshare use of Usage Statistics Exchange	in development
	COUNTER(usage reports, article based)	WO	SURFshare use of Usage Statistics Exchange	in development

Identifier	URN:NBN- National Bibliographic Number	WO	DARE Use of Persistent Identifiers (Dutch)	0.6
		WO	Registration Catalog urn:nbn:nl:ui
		WO	Registration Criteria urn:nbn:nl:ui
	ISNI - International Standard for Name Identification	WO	DAI - Digital Author Identification

Metadata	Simple Dublin Core	WO	DARE Use of DC	2.0 + addendum
		HBO	DRIVER Guidelines	2.0 - 2008-12-02
	Qualified Dublin Core	HBO	Kennisbank Publicaties	ß
		HBO	Kennisbank Scripties	1.3
	IEEE-LOM	HBO/WO	Lorelom	1.8
	MODS	WO	Use of Mods	1.0

Security

Semantics	INFO URI namespace	WO	Namespace info:eu-repo

Structure	MPEG21 DIDL - Digital Item Declaration Language	WO	MPEG21 DIDL Application Profile for Institutional Repositories	3.0
	OAI-ORE	WO	Objectmodel Enhanced Publications	4.2

The Netherlands has two Higher Education communities