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.
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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.
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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.
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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 book number (ISBN)
ISO 2145:1978 TC 46 Documentation -- Numbering of divisions and subdivisions in written documents
ISO 2146:2010
TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- Registry services for libraries and related organizations | 6
Under the Standards responsability of
ISO 2384:1977 TC 46 Documentation -- Presentation of translations
ISO 2709:2008 TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- Format for information exchange
ISO 2788:1986
TC 46/SC 9 Documentation -- Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri
ISO 2789:2006 TC 46/SC 8 Information and documentation -- International library statistics
ISO 3166-1:2006
TC 46 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 1: Country codes
TC 46
ISO 3166-1:2006/Cor 1:2007
ISO 3166-2:2007
TC 46 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 2: Country subdivision code
ISO 3166-3:1999
TC 46 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries
ISO 3297:2007 TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- International standard serial number (ISSN)
ISO 3602:1989 TC 46 Documentation -- Romanization of Japanese (kana script)
ISO 3901:2001 TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)
ISO 5122:1979 TC 46 Documentation -- Abstract sheets in serial publications
ISO 5123:1984 TC 46 Documentation -- Headers for microfiche of monographs and serials
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Under the Standards responsability of ISO 5127:2001 TC 46 Information and documentation -- Vocabulary
ISO 5963:1985
Documentation -- Methods for examining documents, determining their subjects, TC 46/SC 9 and selecting indexing terms
ISO 5964:1985
TC 46/SC 9 Documentation -- Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri
ISO 6357:1985 TC 46 Documentation -- Spine titles on books and other publications
ISO 6630:1986 TC 46/SC 4 Documentation -- Bibliographic control characters
ISO 7098:1991 TC 46 Information and documentation -- Romanization of Chinese
ISO 7144:1986 TC 46 Documentation -- Presentation of theses and similar documents
ISO 7154:1983 TC 46 Documentation -- Bibliographic filing principles
ISO 7220:1996 TC 46 Information and documentation -- Presentation of catalogues of standards
TC 46/SC 9
ISO 7220:1996/Cor 1:2001
ISO 7275:1985 TC 46 Documentation -- Presentation of title information of series
ISO/TR 8393:1985
Documentation -- TC 46 ISO bibliographic filing rules (International Standard Bibliographic Filing Rules) -- Exemplification of Bibliographic filing principles in a model set of rules
ISO 8459:2009
TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- Bibliographic data element directory for use in data exchange and enquiry
TC 46/SC 4 | 8
Under the Standards responsability of ISO 8777:1993 Information and documentation -- Commands for interactive text searching
ISO 9230:2007
Information and documentation -- Determination of price indexes for print and TC 46/SC 8 electronic media purchased by libraries
ISO 9706:1994
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Paper for documents -- Requirements for permanence
ISO 9707:2008
TC 46/SC 8 Information and documentation -- Statistics on the production and distribution of books, newspapers, periodicals and electronic publications
ISO 9984:1996
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Georgian characters into Latin characters
ISO 9985:1996
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Armenian characters into Latin characters
ISO 10160:1997
TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- Open Systems Interconnection -- Interlibrary Loan Application Service Definition
ISO 10160:1997/Amd 1:2002
TC 46/SC 4 Addition of annex D acknowledging the National Library of Canada as the Maintenance Agency
ISO 10161-1:1997
TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- Open Systems Interconnection -- Interlibrary Loan Application Protocol Specification -- Part 1: Protocol specification
ISO 10161-1:1997/Amd 1:2002 TC 46/SC 4 Support for Use of Object Identifier in "identifier" Parameter of the Extension Data
ISO 10161-1:1997/Amd 2:2002
TC 46/SC 4 Addition of annex I acknowledging the National Library of Canada as the Maintenance Agency and Registration Authority
TC 46/SC 4 ISO 10161-2:1997 | 9
Under the Standards responsability of Information and documentation -- Open Systems Interconnection -- Interlibrary Loan Application Protocol Specification -- Part 2: Protocol implementation conformance statement (PICS) proforma
ISO 10324:1997 TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- Holdings statements -- Summary level
ISO 10754:1996
TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- Extension of the Cyrillic alphabet coded character set for non-Slavic languages for bibliographic information interchange
ISO 10957:2009 TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- International standard music number (ISMN)
ISO 11108:1996
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Archival paper -- Requirements for permanence and durability
ISO 11620:2008 TC 46/SC 8 Information and documentation -- Library performance indicators
ISO 11798:1999
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Permanence and durability of writing, printing and copying on paper -- Requirements and test methods
ISO 11799:2003
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Document storage requirements for archive and library materials
ISO 11800:1998
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Requirements for binding materials and methods used in the manufacture of books
ISO 11940:1998 TC 46 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Thai
ISO 11940-2:2007
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Thai characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Simplified transcription of Thai language
ISO/TR 11941:1996
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Korean script into Latin characters | 10
Under the Standards responsability of
ISO 12083:1994 Information and documentation -- Electronic manuscript preparation and markup TC 46/SC 4
ISO/TR 13028:2010
TC 46/SC 11 Information and documentation - Implementation guidelines for digitization of records
ISO 14416:2003
Information and documentation -- Requirements for binding of books, periodicals, TC 46 serials and other paper documents for archive and library use -- Methods and materials
ISO 15489-1:2001 TC 46/SC 11 Information and documentation -- Records management -- Part 1: General
ISO/TR 15489-2:2001 TC 46/SC 11 Information and documentation -- Records management -- Part 2: Guidelines
ISO 15511:2009
TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- International standard identifier for libraries and related organizations (ISIL)
ISO 15706-1:2002/Amd 1:2008 TC 46/SC 9 Alternate encodings and editorial changes
ISO 15706-1:2002
TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) -- Part 1: Audiovisual work identifier
ISO 15706-2:2007
TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) -- Part 2: Version identifier
ISO 15707:2001
TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC)
ISO 15836:2009 TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- The Dublin Core metadata element set
TC 46/SC 4
ISO 15836:2009/Cor 1:2009
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Under the Standards responsability of ISO 15919:2001 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters
ISO 15924:2004
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Codes for the representation of names of scripts
ISO 16175-1:2010
Information and documentation -- Principles and functional requirements for TC 46/SC 11 records in electronic office environments -- Part 1: Overview and statement of principles
ISO 16175-2:2011
Information and documentation -- Principles and functional requirements for TC 46/SC 11 records in electronic office environments -- Part 2: Guidelines and functional requirements for digital records management systems
ISO 16175-3:2010
Information and documentation -- Principles and functional requirements for TC 46/SC 11 records in electronic office environments -- Part 3: Guidelines and functional requirements for records in business systems
ISO 16245:2009
TC 46 Information and documentation -- Boxes, file covers and other enclosures, made from cellulosic materials, for storage of paper and parchment documents
ISO 17933:2000 TC 46/SC 4 GEDI -- Generic Electronic Document Interchange
ISO 20775:2009 TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- Schema for holdings information
ISO 21047:2009 TC 46/SC 9 Information and documentation -- International Standard Text Code (ISTC)
ISO 21127:2006
TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information
ISO/TR 21449:2004
TC 46/SC 9 Content Delivery and Rights Management: Functional requirements for identifiers and descriptors for use in the music, film, video, sound recording and publishing | 12
Under the Standards responsability of industries
ISO 22310:2006
TC 46/SC 11 Information and documentation -- Guidelines for standards drafters for stating records management requirements in standards
ISO 23081-1:2006
TC 46/SC 11 Information and documentation -- Records management processes -- Metadata for records -- Part 1: Principles
ISO 23081-2:2009
TC 46/SC 11 Information and documentation -- Managing metadata for records -- Part 2: Conceptual and implementation issues
ISO 23950:1998
TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- Information retrieval (Z39.50) -- Application service definition and protocol specification
ISO 25577:2008 TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- MarcXchange
ISO/TR 26122:2008 TC 46/SC 11 Information and documentation -- Work process analysis for records
TC 46/SC 11
ISO/TR 26122:2008/Cor 1:2009
ISO/TR 28118:2009 TC 46/SC 8 Information and documentation -- Performance indicators for national libraries
ISO 28500:2009 TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- WARC file format
ISO 28560-1:2011
TC 46/SC 4 Information and documentation -- RFID in libraries -- Part 1: Data elements and general guidelines for implementation
ISO 28560-2:2011
Information and documentation -- RFID in libraries -- Part 2: Encoding of RFID data TC 46/SC 4 elements based on rules from ISO/IEC 15962
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Under the Standards responsability of ISO 28560-3:2011 Information and documentation -- RFID in libraries -- Part 3: Fixed length encoding
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