Library standards

Standardization of practices relating to libraries, documentation and information centers, indexing and abstracting services, archives, information science and publishing are included under TC 46. TC 46 is the name of the ISO Technical Committee working on standardization of practices relating to libraries, documentation and information centers, indexing and abstracting services, archives, information science and publishing. These

are:

· ISO 4:1997 Information and documentation -- Rules for the abbreviation of title words and titles of publications

· ISO 8:1977 Documentation -- Presentation of periodicals

· ISO 9:1995 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages

· ISO 18:1981 Documentation -- Contents list of periodicals

· ISO 214:1976 Documentation -- Abstracts for publications and documentation

· ISO 215:1986 Documentation -- Presentation of contributions to periodicals and other serials

· ISO 233:1984 Documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters

· ISO 233-2:1993 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 characters -- Part 3: Persian language – Simplified transliteration (available in English only)

· ISO 259:1984 Documentation -- Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters

· ISO 259-2:1994 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Simplified transliteration

· ISO 690:1987 Documentation -- Bibliographic references -- Content, form and structure

· ISO 690-2:1997 Information and documentation – Bibliographic references -- Part 2: Electronic documents or parts thereof

· ISO 832:1994 Information and documentation -- Bibliographic description and references -- Rules for the abbreviation of bibliographic terms

· ISO 843:1997 Information and documentation -- Conversion of Greek characters into Latin characters

· ISO 999:1996 Information and documentation -- Guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes

· ISO 1086:1991 Information and documentation -- Title leaves of books

· ISO 2108:1992 Information and documentation -- International standard book numbering (ISBN)

· ISO 2145:1978 Documentation -- Numbering of divisions and subdivisions in written documents

· ISO 2384:1977 Documentation -- Presentation of translations

· ISO 2709:1996 Information and documentation -- Format for Information Exchange

· ISO 2788:1986 Documentation -- Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri

· ISO 2789:2003 Information and documentation -- International library statistics

· ISO 3166-1:1997 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 1: Country codes

· ISO 3166-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 2: Country subdivision code

· ISO 3166-3:1999 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions -- Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries

· ISO 3297:1998 Information and documentation -- International standard serial number (ISSN)

· ISO 3602:1989 Documentation -- Romanization of Japanese (kana script)

· ISO 3901:2001 Information and documentation -- International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)

· ISO 5122:1979 Documentation -- Abstract sheets in serial publications

· ISO 5123:1984 Documentation -- Headers for microfiche of monographs and serials

· ISO 5127:2001 Information and documentation -- Vocabulary (available in English only)

· ISO 5426-2:1996 Information and documentation -- Extension of the Latin alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange -- Part 2: Latin characters used in minor European languages and obsolete

· typography (available in English only)

· ISO 5963:1985 Documentation -- Methods for examining documents, determining their subjects, and selecting indexing terms

· ISO 5964:1985 Documentation -- Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri

· ISO 6357:1985 Documentation -- Spine titles on books and other publications

· ISO 6630:1986 Documentation -- Bibliographic control characters

· ISO 6861:1996 Information and documentation -- Glagolitic alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange (available in English only)

· ISO 7098:1991 Information and documentation -- Romanization of Chinese

· ISO 7144:1986 Documentation -- Presentation of theses and similar documents

· ISO 7154:1983 Documentation -- Bibliographic filing principles

· ISO 7220:1996 Information and documentation -- Presentation of catalogues of standards

· ISO 7220:1996/Cor 1:2001

· ISO 7275:1985 Documentation -- Presentation of title information of series

· ISO 8459-1:1988 Documentation -- Bibliographic data element directory -- Part 1: Interloan applications

· ISO 8459-2:1992 Information and documentation -- Bibliographic data element directory -- Part 2: Acquisitions applications

· ISO 8459-3:1994 Information and documentation -- Bibliographic data element directory -- Part 3: Information retrieval applications

· ISO 8459-4:1998 Information and documentation -- Bibliographic data element directory -- Part 4: Circulation applications

· ISO 8459-5:2002 Information and documentation -- Bibliographic data element directory -- Part 5: Data elements for the exchange of cataloguing and metadata (available in English only)

· ISO 8777:1993 Information and documentation -- Commands for interactive text searching

· ISO 8957:1996 Information and documentation -- Hebrew alphabet coded character sets for bibliographic information interchange (available in English only)

· ISO 9230:1991 Information and documentation -- Determination of price indexes for books and serials purchased by libraries

· ISO 9706:1994 Information and documentation -- Paper for documents --Requirements for permanence

· ISO 9707:1991 Information and documentation -- Statistics on the production and distribution of books, newspapers, periodicals and electronic publications

· ISO 9984:1996 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Georgian characters into Latin characters

· ISO 9985:1996 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Armenian characters into Latin characters

· ISO 10160:1997 Information and documentation -- Open Systems Interconnection -- Interlibrary Loan Application Service Definition (available in English only)

· ISO 10160:1997/Amd 1:2002 Addition of annex D acknowledging the National Library of Canada as the Maintenance Agency (available in English only)

· ISO 10161-1:1997 Information and documentation -- Open Systems Interconnection -- Interlibrary Loan Application Protocol Specification -- Part 1: Protocol specification (available in English only)

· ISO 10161-1:1997/Amd 1:2002 Support for Use of Object Identifier in "identifier" Parameter of the Extension Data (available in English only)

· ISO 10161-1:1997/Amd 2:2002 Addition of annex I acknowledging the National Library of Canada as the Maintenance Agency and Registration Authority (available in English only)

· ISO 10161-2:1997 Information and documentation -- Open Systems Interconnection -- Interlibrary Loan Application Protocol Specification -- Part 2: Protocol implementation conformance statement (PICS) proforma

· (available in English only)

· ISO 10324:1997 Information and documentation -- Holdings statements -- Summary level

· ISO 10444:1994 Information and documentation -- International standard technical report number (ISRN)

· ISO 10754:1996 Information and documentation -- Extension of the Cyrillic alphabet coded character set for non-Slavic languages for bibliographic information interchange (available in English only)

· ISO 10957:1993 Information and documentation -- International standard music number (ISMN)

· ISO 11108:1996 Information and documentation -- Archival paper -- Requirements for permanence and durability (available in English only)

· ISO 11620:1998 Information and documentation -- Library performance indicators

· ISO 11620:1998/Amd 1:2003 Additional performance indicators for libraries

· ISO 11798:1999 Information and documentation -- Permanence and durability of writing, printing and copying on paper -- Requirements and test methods

· ISO 11800:1998 Information and documentation -- Requirements for binding materials and methods used in the manufacture of books

· ISO 11940:1998 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Thai

· ISO 12083:1994 Information and documentation -- Electronic manuscript preparation and markup

· ISO 14416:2003 Information and documentation -- Requirements for binding of books, periodicals, serials and other paper documents for archive and library use -- Methods and materials

· ISO 15489-1:2001 Information and documentation -- Records management -- Part 1: General

· ISO 15706:2002 Information and documentation -- International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN)

· ISO 15707:2001 Information and documentation -- International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC)

· ISO 15919:2001 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters (available in English only)

· ISO 17933:2000 GEDI -- Generic Electronic Document Interchange

· ISO 23950:1998 Information and documentation -- Information retrieval

· (Z39.50) -- Application service definition and protocol specification

· ISO 2407: Std for bibliographic data exchange.

· ISO 2789: Std for International library statistics

· ISO DIS 10160: Documentation-Interlibrary loan service definition

· ISO DIS 10161: Documentation-Interlibrary loan service protocol definition

· ISO DIS 10162: Documentation-Application service for information's systems search, retrieve and update protocol specification

(Source: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2003-August/000232.html)

Resource Description Formats

• MARC 21 formats - Representation and communication of descriptive metadata about information items
• MARCXML - MARC 21 data in an XML structure
• MODS (Metadata Object Description Standard) - XML markup for selected metadata from existing MARC 21 records as well as original resource description
• MADS (Metadata Authority Description Standard) - XML markup for selected authority data from MARC21 records as well as original authority data
• EAD (Encoded Archival Description) - XML markup designed for encoding finding aids
• VRA Core -- The VRA Core is a data standard and XML schema for the description of works of visual culture as well as the images that document them

Digital Library Standards

• METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard) - Structure for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata
• MIX (NISO Metadata for Images in XML) - XML schema for encoding technical data elements required to manage digital image collections
• PREMIS (Preservation Metadata) - A data dictionary and supporting XML schemas for core preservation metadata needed to support the long-term preservation of digital materials.
• TextMD (Technical Metadata for Text) - XML schema that details technical metadata for text-based digital objects.
• ISO/DIS 25577 - Information and documentation -- MarcXchange.
• ISO 20775 - Schema for Holdings Information.
• ALTO - Technical Metadata for Optical Character Recognition

Information Resource Retrieval Protocols

• Z39.50 - Supports information retrieval among different information systems
• SRU/SRW (Search and Retrieve URL/Web Service) - Web services for search and retrieval based on Z39.50 semantics
• CQL (Contextual Query Language) - Formal, user-friendly query language for use between information retrieval systems

Standards in Progress

• Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF)

ISO Language Codes

• ISO 639-2: Codes for the representation of names of languages-- Part 2: Alpha-3 code.
• ISO 639-5: Codes for the representation of names of languages-- Part 5: Alpha-3 code for language families and groups.

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

Metadata for Digital Content: Developing institutional policies and standards at the Library of Congress

Standards in the Library of Congress Collections

(Source: http://www.loc.gov/standards/)