| CCITT | The International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee |
| DCF | Design rule for Camera File system |
| DCMI | Dublin Core Metadata Inititiative |
| DIS | Draft International Standard |
| EXIF | Exchangeable Image File Format |
| ICC | International Color Consortium |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IPTC-NAA IIM | International Press Telecommunications Council, Newspaper Association of America, Information Interchange Model |
| ISO | International Standards Organisation |
| ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
| JEIDA | Japan Electronic Industry Development Association (has been replaced by JEITA) |
| JEITA | Japan Electronics and Information Technology industries Association (was JEIDA) |
| JFIF | JPEG File Interchange Format |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework |
| TIFF | Tagged Interchange File Format |
| TIFF/EP | Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography |
| XMP | Extensible Metadata Platform |