Standards Committee Activities 2022

Voted CONFIRM on
ISO 9707, Information and documentation – Statistics on the production and distribution of books, newspapers, periodicals and electronic publications

Description:

This International Standard gives guidance on the keeping of national statistics to provide standardized information on various aspects of the production and distribution of printed, electronic and micro-publications (essentially books, newspapers and periodicals). In addition, this International Standard provides recommendations on subject classification.

Voted APPROVE on ISO/FDIS 26324 Digital Object Identifier System

Description:

This document specifies the syntax, description and resolution functional components of the digital object identifier system. It specifies the general principles for the creation, registration and administration of DOI names (where DOI is an initialism for “digital object identifier”).

This document defines the syntax for a DOI name, which is used for the identification of an object of any material form (digital or physical) or an abstraction (such as a textual work) where there is a functional need to distinguish it from other ojects.

Voted APPROVE with comments on ISO/FDIS 23527 Research Activity Identifier (RAID) Information Technology

Question:

Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/FDIS 23527 for publication?

Description:

This document defines the use and structure of the Research Activity Identifier (RAiD) system. The RAiD system includes a registry which supports the identification of research projects, i.e. projects managed in a scholarly or industrial environment which are expected to lead to specified outputs.

It also specifies the RAiD metadata record which holds key metadata relating to the identified project and indicates relationships to other entities and their persistent identifiers and metadata.

Comment:

ASIST agrees with the question asked by Access Innovations:

Is there an overall plan for how all these ID’s will work together?

Voted APPROVE with Comments on ISO NP 16687 Impact Assessment for Museums

Description:

The proposed International Standard “Impact assessment for museums” is planned as a follow-up to ISO 18641 “Information and documentation – International museum statistics” and ISO 21246 “Information and documentation – Key indicators for museums”. Its purpose is to define and describe methods for assessing and measuring the impact of museums on individuals and on society.

Comments:

ASIST is of the opinion that the proper course of action would be to modify and combine the existing standards in this area rather than develop an an entirely new standard

Voted REVISE on ISO 25964-1:2011 Information and Retrieval – Thesauri and Interoperability with Other Vocabularies – Part 1: Thesauri for Information Retrieva

Description:

This part of ISO 25964 gives recommendations for the development and maintenance of thesauri intended for information retrieval applications. It is applicable to vocabularies used for retrieving information from all types of information resources.

Voted APPROVE on ISO FDIS 3297 International Serial Standard Number (ISSN)

Question:

Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/FDIS 3297 for publication

Description:

This document defines and promotes the use of a standard code (ISSN) for the unique identification of serials and other continuing resources.

Each International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique identifier for a serial or other continuing resource in a defined medium whether print or electronic.

NOTE: This was a minor revision.

The ASIST Standards Committee Voted CONFIRM on the following ISO review of some transiteration standards

Systematic Review – ISO15919:2001 Transliteration of Devanagari and Eric Indic Scripts to Latin Characters

Systematic Review – ISO 259-2:1994 Transliteration of Hebrew Characters – Part 2 Simplified Transliteration 

Systematic Review – ISO 259:1984 Transliteration of Hebrew Characters into Latin Characters

Systemic Review – ISO 9985:1996 Transliteration of Armenian Characters into Latin Characters

Systematic Review – ISO 9:1995 – Transliteration of Cyrillic – Slavic and Non Slavic Languages

Voted APPROVE with comments on ISO/DIS 24229, Codes for written language conversion systems

Question:

Do you approve of the technical content of ISO/DIS 24229?

Description:

The codes are devised for usage in any application requiring the expression of written language conversion systems, including transliteration and romanization systems, in coded format.

Comment:

The example given included “Varia systems” with “The Wade-Giles Chinese transcription system from A Chinese-English Dictionary” from 1912. This is fine, but maybe there could be another example for the “Pinyin” which has replaced Wade-Giles system by majority of the name authorities and subject headings in the world for years.

Comment provided by Marcia Zeng

Voted CONFIRM on ISO 2709:2008, Information and documentation – Format for information exchange

Question:

Do you recommend ISO 2709:2008 be confirmed, revised or withdrawn?

Description:

This International Standard specifies the requirements for a generalized exchange format which will hold records describing all forms of material capable of bibliographic description as well as other types of records. It does not define the length or the content of individual records and does not assign any meaning to tags, indicators or identifiers, these specifications being the functions of an implementation format.

This International Standard describes a generalized structure, a framework designed specially for communications between data processing systems and not for use as a processing format within systems.

Voted APPROVE on ISO/FDIS 15706-2, International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) – Part 2: Version identifier

Question:

Do you approve the technical content of ISO/FDIS 15706-2 for publication?

Description:

This document establishes a voluntary system for the identification of versions of audiovisual works and other content derived from or closely related to an audiovisual work. It is based on the International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) system defined in ISO 15706-1. An ISAN combined with the version segment specified in Clause 4 constitutes an ISAN version identifier, hereinafter referred to as a V-ISAN. A V-ISAN is a registered, globally unique identifier for versions of an audiovisual work and related content.