Standards Committee Activities 2025

Type: New Work Item Proposal (Technical Specification)

Scope: Provides methodology and structured listing of technical activity fields for classifying standards publications.

Description: This standard provides a methodology, and a listing of fields of (technical) activity, organized by groups and subgroups, for classifying standards publications. By inheritance, it provides a common, harmonized understanding of standards application domains – enabling interoperability, consistency, and semantic alignment across different systems and stakeholders, in the form of a foundational semantic enrichment of SMART standards.

Decision: Approved this project being added to the program. Draft document can be registered as a Working Draft (WD – Stage 20.20).

Description: This document offers guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes.

Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/DIS 999?

Decision: Approved with comments

Comments:

This draft is relevant to standard practices in index creation and presentation.

However, the following revisions are suggested:

1. Reference to ISO 25964-1:
   Section 2 cites ISO 25964-1:2011, Information and documentation – Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies – Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval. Please consider updating this reference to reflect the most recent revision of Part 1 of this ISO standard.
2. Clarification in Section 7.4.5 (Vocabulary):
   The full name “Virtual International Authority File” should be followed by the abbreviation “(VIAF)” upon first mention for clarity and consistency.
3. Additional Recommended Vocabulary Resource:
   The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) is a widely recognized and significant resource for indexing geographical names. It is recommended that this be included in the list of vocabulary sources in Section 7.4.5.

Description: ISO/CD 25244, Information and documentation – Performance indicators for archives specifies guidelines for the archives community on the collection and reporting of statistics for the following purposes:

• strategic planning and internal management of archives;
• aggregating and comparing operational and performance statistics at regional, national, and international levels;
• reporting to stakeholders such as funding institutions, politicians, researchers, and the general public;
• promoting the role and value of archives for advancing learning and research, education and culture, and social and economic life;
• improving the management of processes, reinforcing transparency and supporting good governance.

Question: Do you have comments on the technical content of ISO/CD 25244?

Vote: No comments.

Description: ISO 30300:2020 provides a foundational vocabulary for the records management domain, promoting consistency and clarity across related standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 11. It includes key terms and definitions but does not restrict the creation of new terms in future standards. This vocabulary supports professionals and organizations aiming to align with international best practices in records lifecycle management.

Decision: Approved.

Description: Part 1 of ISO 25964 gives recommendations for the development and maintenance of thesauri intended for information retrieval, applications as well as broader use cases including web navigation, artificial intelligence, author tagging, management and use applications. It is applicable to vocabularies used for retrieving information from all types of information resources, irrespective of the media used (text, sound, still or moving image, physical object or multimedia) including knowledge bases web sites, bibliographic databases, text, museum or multimedia collections, and the items within them, research and operational datasets, medical records, product catalogs.

Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/DIS 25964-1?

Decision: Approved.

Ballot Title: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/JWG 7 (EPUB) – ISO/IEC CD 22424, Digital publishing – Long-term archiving for EPUB (EPUB/A)

Vote

‘Yes’ with comments.

Comments

• Typo on 8.2 Metadata, for “Creation Date or Start Date/End Date (dc:date)”.
• The reference for EPUB should be updated. Other related standards are:

• EPUB 3.3 Implementation report: 2025-05-02 w3c.github.io/epub-specs/epub33/reports/
• EPUB 3.3 W3C Recommendation 2025-03-27 www.w3.org/TR/epub-33
• EPUB Accessibility 1.1 also has the newer version. This standard needs to check “Conformance and Discoverability Requirements for EPUB publications” 2024-10-17 www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11
• There is a Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 , W3C Recommendation, 2024-12-12. www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11
• Government of Canada – Accessibility Standards Canada
  ASC-6.2 Accessible and Equitable Artificial Intelligence Systems. 2025-03. [Status: Public Review] accessible.canada.ca/creating-accessibility-standards/…
• ISO 14289-2:2024 (February 2024) Document management applications – Electronic document file format enhancement for accessibility Part 2: Use of ISO 32000-2 (PDF/UA-2) www.iso.org/standard/82278.html
• EN 301 549 (EU Standard) Harmonised European Standard. Accessibility requirements for ICT products and services (March 2021) https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/301500_301599/301549/03.02.01_60/en_301549v030201p.pdf

Description

ISO/IEC CD 22424, Information technology – Digital publishing – EPUB 3 archiving for preservation (EPUB/A) specifies content conformance and packaging requirements for the long-term preservation of EPUB publications. It represents a more restrictive form of EPUB publication than allowed by ISO/IEC 23736 and EPUB 3.3.

Description: ISO 8459:2009, Bibliographic data element directory for use in data exchange and Inquiry describes, in the form of a directory, data elements used to support the processes of acquisition, resource description and cataloguing, searching and requesting loan or copy by an end user or an institution. Vote: ‘Yes’ with comments. Comment: The ISO document includes a detailed data element dictionary which one needs to review page-by-page since the form has a different direction and the elements cannot be searchable. There are rich classes and sub-classes, e.g., under “Resource” there is a detailed one on Bibliographic description and also a whole group of Rights management. (was wondering why no ‘right’ or ‘copyright’ in the Bibliographic Description, found this whole group for that. Good.) The coverage under Party-Person for Personal Status is fine, although those are the ones got more attentions in the real situations related to bibliographic data creation during recent few years.

Description:

ISO 4: 1997 gives rules for abbreviating titles of serials and, if appropriate, non-serial documents in languages using the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets. This International Standard also serves as the basis for the establishment of title word abbreviations by the ISSN Network.

Vote:

Approve with comments.

Comments:

When applying ISO 4:1997(E) abbreviation rules to non-Roman scripts, conflicts can arise. Therefore, languages using non-Roman scripts should develop their own national or institutional guidelines, adapting ISO principles to local linguistic structures. Preparing language-specific abbreviation lists and adopting standardized transliteration practices will maintain semantic precision while aligning with ISO standards.

Description

‘ISO/FDIS 11108, Information and documentation – Archival paper – Requirements for permanence and durability’ specifies the requirements for archival paper. It is applicable to unprinted papers intended for documents and publications required for permanent retention and frequent use. For these documents and publications, paper of high permanence and high durability is required.

Question: Do you approve the technical content of ISO/FDIS 11108?

NOTE: This is an FDIS (Final Draft International Standard) ballot. At this stage, only editorial comments are permitted. We are not permitted to introduce any new technical issues.

Decision: Voted ‘No’ with comments.

Comment:

ISO/FDIS 11108 relates to the following standards and therefore proposed to be included in references.

• ISO 18902:2013 – Imaging materials… (Provides guidelines for storage materials that could affect archival paper preservation, especially in mixed media contexts).
• ISO 16245:2023 Information and documentation — Boxes, file covers and other enclosures, made from cellulosic materials…(Addresses storage enclosures, which are critical for maintaining the condition of archival paper).
• ISO 11799:2024 Information and documentation — Document storage requirements for archive and library materials (Provides guidelines for the storage conditions necessary to preserve archival documents).