ISO

Expanded name

International Organization for Standardization

Date of establishment

1947

URL

http://www.iso.ch [external]

Objectives

ISO is a non-governmental worldwide federation of national standards bodies who's mission is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity. ISO's work results in international agreements that are published as International Standards. By the end of 2002, ISO's work has resulted in over 13,700 International Standards and standards-type documents.

Areas of Activity

The scope of ISO is not limited to any particular industry; it covers all areas of standardization except electrical and electronic engineering, which is the responsibility of IEC. The work in the field of information technology is carried out by a joint ISO/IEC technical committee (see ISO/IEC JTC1 below).

Other ISO technical committees of relevance to the IT industry include:

• TC 42 [external]: Photography
• TC 46 [external]: Information and documentation
• TC 68 [external]: Banking, Securities and other financial services
• TC 130 [external]: Graphic technology
• TC 154 [external]: Documents and data elements in administration, commerce and industry
• TC 159 [external]: Ergonomics
• TC 171 [external]: Document imaging applications
• TC 215 [external]: Health Informatics

Membership

The membership consists of 140 national standards bodies, of which 92 are member bodies, 37 correspondent members and 11 subscriber members (September 2001). A member body of ISO is the national body "most representative of standardization in its country". Only one such body for each country is accepted for membership. The member bodies are expected to:

• Inform potentially interested parties in their country of relevant international standardization opportunities and initiatives.
• Organize a concerted view of the country's interests.
• Provide their country's share of financial support.

Standards Sponsored

ISO 12142: Electronic Imaging Errors

ISO 12142: Electronic Imaging - Media Error Monitoring and Reporting Techniques for Verification of Stored Data on Optical Digital Data Disks

ISO 15489: Records Management

ISO 15489: Information and Documentation - Records Management

ISO 15924: Script Codes

ISO 15924: Information and Documentation - Codes for the Representation of Names of Scripts

ISO 23081: Metadata for Records

ISO 23081: Records Management Processes - Metadata for Records

ISO 2788: Monolingual Thesauri

ISO 2788, Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Monolingual Thesauri

ISO 3166: Country Codes

ISO 3166: Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries and their Subdivisions

ISO 5964: Multilingual Thesauri

ISO 5964, Documentation - Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Multilingual Thesauri

ISO 639: Names of Languages

ISO 639: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages

ISO 832:1994

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

ISO 8601: Dates and Times

ISO 8601, Data Elements and Interchange Formats - Information Interchange - Representation of Dates and Times

ISO/IEC 27001: Information Security Requirements

ISO/IEC 27001: Information Technology - Security Techniques - Information Security Management Systems - Requirements

ISO/IEC 27002: Information Security - Code of Practice

ISO/IEC 27002: Information Technology - Security Techniques - Information Security Management Systems - Code of Practice for Information Security Management

ISO/IEC 9594-8: Public-key and Attribute Certificate Frameworks

ISO/IEC 9594-8: Information Technology - Open Systems Interconnection - The Directory: Public-key and Attribute Certificate Frameworks

ISO/IEC 9834-8: Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs)

ISO/IEC 9834-8: Information Technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Procedures for the Operation of OSI Registration Authorities: Generation and Registration of Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) and Their Use as ASN.1 Object Identifier Components

ISO/TR 12037: Electronic Imaging, Expungement of Information

ISO/TR 12037: Electronic imaging - Recommendations for the Expungement of Information Recorded on Write-once Optical Media

ISO/TR 12654: Electronic Imaging, Management of Electronic Recording Systems

ISO/TR 12654: Electronic Imaging - Recommendations for the Management of Electronic Recording Systems for the Recording of Documents That May be Required as Evidence, on WORM Optical Disk

ISO/TR 15801: Electronic Imaging - Trustworthiness and Reliability

ISO/TR 15801: Electronic Imaging - Information Stored Electronically - Recommendations for Trustworthiness and Reliability

ISO/TR 18492: Long-term Preservation

ISO/TR 18492: Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Document-Based Information

ISO/TS 12033: Electronic Imaging Compression

ISO/TS 12033: Electronic Imaging -- Guidance for Selection of Document Image Compression Methods

JPEG 2000

ISO/IEC 15444: Information Technology - JPEG 2000

MARC

MAchine-Readable Cataloguing

OAIS

ISO 14721: Space Data and Information Transfer Systems - Open Archival Information System - Reference Model

PAIMAS

ISO 20652: Space Data and Information Transfer Systems - Producer-Archive Interface - Methodology Abstract Standard

PDF/A

ISO 19005-1: Document Management - Electronic Document File Format for Long-term Preservation

Z39.50

ISO 23950: Information and documentation - Information Retrieval (Z39.50) - Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification