Data set resulting from a survey on the standardization of metadata for livestock. The survey was realized within the PIGWEB project. The project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101004770. The survey was also supported by the NFDI4Biodiversity project (part of the National Research Data infrastructure (NFDI) and received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG; Grant Agreement No 442032008).