Report from ISO TC46 - Annual Meetings
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Report from ISO TC46 - annual meetings. Sydney, May, 2 nd – 6th 2011 The following report summarizes the key-topics emerged during the week in Sydney - with particular regards to the discussions held in the meetings of SC4, S8 SC9 1 and plenary TC46 - of probable interest to the IFLA community. [For the list of published standards, cfr . Appendix A] 1. Standardization of ePub 3.0 SC4 will establish an ad hoc group (led by U.S. - ANSI) to draft a document to submit to the ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 34 2 secretariat and its ad hoc technical group, organized in response to their resolution 58 “Standardization of ePub”. This document shall outline a strategy and proposed terms of reference for a joint working group. The goal is to ensure that areas of interest to TC 46, such as descriptive and administrative metadata and longterm preservation, are taken into account in any international standard that might be developed based on ePub. On the other hand, TC46 endorses this action on ePub version 3.0. TC 46 requests SC 4 to report back on the reactions to this proposal from IDPF 3 and the ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 34 ad hoc technical group. 2. Confirmation of standards Confirmation of the following standards: ISO 3602:1989 (version 4) Information and documentation -- Romanization of Japanese (kana script) ISO 3166-2:2007 (Ed 2) Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 2: Country subdivision code ISO 11940-2:2007 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Thai characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Simplified. 1 ISO Subcommittees: TC 46/SC 4 Technical interoperability; TC 46/SC 8 Quality - Statistics and performance evaluation; TC 46/SC 9 Identification and description; TC 46/SC 11 Archives/records management. 2 The ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 34: Document Description and Processing Languages. International standardization subcommittee for Document Description and Processing Languages standards and technical reports related to structured markup languages. 3 International Digital Publishing Forum - The key IDPF standard is ePub. ePub is a distribution and interchange format standard for digital publications and documents. It defines a means of representing, packaging and encoding structured and semantically enhanced Web content for distribution in a single- file format. | 1 3. Transliteration standards ISO TC 46 acknowledges the answers given by member bodies to the call to assess the interest and the need for revision of the transliteration standards. ISO TC 46 notes the contributions submitted from China and Germany and the possibility of future international standardization subcommittee for Document Description and Processing Languages standards and technical reports related to structured markup languages . Member bodies wishing to update a transliteration standard are encouraged to consider submitting a new work item proposal or an amendment proposal as appropriate. 4. SC4 on ILL SC4 resolves to hold a discussion on ILL at its 2012 plenary meeting and to establish an ad hoc group led by the ILL Applications Standards Maintenance Agency to prepare a proposal for discussion at that meeting. § Standards suggested 5. SRU (v2.0) On Search/Retrieval via URL. Work continues on another edition of SRU (v2.0) by the maintenance agency, however, the document originates from OASIS and discussions with them would also need to occur before consideration could be given to standardize this document through ISO. Believing that SRU is mature and widely used in library applications, SC4 resolves to invite the ISO 23950 Maintenance Agency [Z39.50] to complete the 2.0 version of SRU and to secure the agreement of OASIS to propose it as an ISO Standard. 6. METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) SC4 requests its secretariat to investigate the possibilities to enable METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) to be put forward as an ISO Standard. § New liaisons with other communities 7. DCMI 4 / SC4 Following endorsement by SC4 for DCMI to establish a liaison with SC4, DCMI are required to formally seek approval from ISO Central Secretary. 8. ISBN agency / SC4 SC4 resolves to support the establishment of a formal liaison between the International ISBN Agency and SC4 the subcommittee. 4 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. | 2 9. Digital Data Exchange LLC (DDEX) / SC9 SC9 recommends that a liaison be established with Digital Data Exchange LLC (DDEX) and asks its secretariat to invite DDEX to request this. § New project / Revisions 10. ISO 11798 ISO TC 46 acknowledges the interest expressed by a member of SCIT ‘Steering Committee for Imaging Technology’ to revise ISO 11798 ‘Information and documentation – Permanence and durability of writing, printing, and copying on paper -- Requirements and test methods’. 11. Conservation of cultural property TC 46 acknowledges the request of CEN/TC 346 ‘Conservation of cultural property’ to revise ISO 9706 ‘Information and documentation -- Paper for documents -- Requirements for permanence’. 12. ISO/AWI 17316 International Standard Document Link SC9 requests its secretariat to register the newly approved project Information and Documentation – International Standard Document Link and establishes a working group to develop it. 13. SC8/ Working Group 2 – International library statistics WG 2 met in München (on December 6 th , 2010) and in Sydney (on May 3 rd , 2011) and discussed drafts for the revision of ISO 2789, especially definitions and counting procedures for new library services. A committee draft is intended for the end of 2011. 14. SC8/Working Group 4 – Performance indicators for libraries WG 4 met in München (on December 7 th , 2010) and in Sydney (on May 5 th , 2011) and discussed changes in the list of indicators and possible new indicators for ISO 11620. A committee draft is intended for spring 2012. 15. ISO 16439 (Working Group 10 -Methods and procedures for assessing the impact of libraries) ISO/TC 46/SC 8 resolves the preparation of a working draft of ISO 16439 by the end of 2011. 16. WG 8 – Statistical data for library buildings WG 8 met in München on December 7-8th , 2010. It is planned to send out the committee draft of ISO/TR 11219 for voting in June 2011. | 3 17. Identifier standards SC9 resolves that future identifier standards shall allow for a reference metadata element containing a party identifier and the identifier scheme used. The requirement is limited to the inclusion of a party identifier metadata element and does not require that the party identifier itself be made available on assignment of a particular identifier instance. The type of party identifier is intentionally not specified. It may be an ISO identifier (such as ISNI or a proprietary identifier such as VIAF or IPI). 18. Relationships between identifiers SC9 resolves to create an ad hoc group to express in a Semantic Web framework the relationship between items identified by SC9 identifiers. § Systematic reviews of standards 5 • ISO 8459 • ISO 15836 • ISO 20775 • ISO 25577 • ISO 28500 • ISO 17933 19. ISO 15511 (ISIL International standard identifier for libraries and related organizations) ISIL standard was updated based on the editorial comments received from the last ballot. 5 Cfr . Appendix A - list of published standards. | 4 Appendix A list of published standards 2011 ISO TC46 – Information and documentation [ISO Sub-Committees: TC 46/SC 4 Technical interoperability; TC 46/SC 8 Quality - Statistics and performance evaluation; TC 46/SC 9 Identification and description; TC 46/SC 11 Archives/records management] Under the Standards responsability of ISO 4:1997 TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- Rules for the abbreviation of title words and titles of publications ISO 8:1977 TC 46 Documentation -- Presentation of periodicals ISO 9:1995 TC 46 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages ISO 18:1981 TC 46 Documentation -- Contents list of periodicals ISO 214:1976 TC 46 Documentation -- Abstracts for publications and documentation ISO 215:1986 TC 46 Documentation -- Presentation of contributions to periodicals and other serials ISO 233:1984 TC 46 Documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters TC 46 ISO 233-2:1993 | 5 Under the Standards responsability of Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Arabic language -- Simplified transliteration ISO 233-3:1999 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin TC 46 characters -- Part 3: Persian language -- Simplified transliteration ISO 259:1984 TC 46 Documentation -- Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters ISO 259-2:1994 TC 46 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Simplified transliteration ISO 690:2010 TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources ISO 832:1994 TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- Bibliographic description and references -- Rules for the abbreviation of bibliographic terms ISO 843:1997 TC 46 Information and documentation -- Conversion of Greek characters into Latin characters ISO 999:1996 TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes ISO 1086:1991 TC 46 Information and documentation -- Title leaves of books ISO 2108:2005 TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- International standard