The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) specification defines an XML metadata vocabulary for managing, aggregating, post-processing, multi-purposing and aggregating magazine, news, catalog, book, and mainstream journal content. PRISM recommends the use of certain existing standards, such as XML, RDF, the Dublin Core, and various ISO specifications for locations, languages, and date/time formats. In addition PRISM provides a framework for the interchange and preservation of content and metadata, a collection of elements to describe that content, and a set of controlled vocabularies listing the values for those elements.

The PRISM Resource Center is a repository of conference papers, articles, and presentations that explain PRISM and related concepts that PRISM employs.

New!  PRISM Cookbook Modules

Recipe #1: Preparing a print article for use by an external partner
Recipe #2: Preparing a print article for use by an internal partner
Recipe #3: Preparing an article for use by an intranet search site
Recipe #4: Preparing articles that have been published to multiple platforms for use by an external partner
Recipe #5: Preparing web articles for use by an external partner
Recipe #6: Preparing print articles with published corrections
Recipe #7: Preparing articles using relationship elements