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IDT/2 - Information and documentation

Sector: Governance & Resilience

Categories: Art and handicrafts | Metal testing. Mechanical | Bodies and body components | Documents | Domestic and commercial equipment. Miscellaneous | Information sciences. | Technical drawings | Technical aspects | Astronomy. Geodesy. Geography | Measurement. Vibration and shock | IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing | Application layer | | Information technology applications | IT terminal and other peripheral equipment | | | Earth-moving machinery | Steels. Pipes and tubes | External sewage systems | Inks | Non-metalliferous minerals | Radiation protection | Information coding. Character sets | Equipment. Winter sports | Drawing equipment | Iron and steel. Castings | Industrial gases | Hand-operated tools | Fire-resistance. Building materials and elements | Belt drives. Components | | Domestic and commercial equipment. Entertainment. Sports | Measurement. Radiation | Particle size analysis. Sieving | Metalliferous minerals. Other | Information technology. General | Measuring instruments | Essential oils | Terminology. Principles and coordination | Welding. Processes | IT applications. Industry | Testing. Non-destructive | Information sciences | Writing and transliteration | Paper and board | Metalliferous metals | Document imaging applications | Publishing | Graphic technology. Materials | Anaesthetic, respiratory and reanimation equipment | Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation.

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, is responsible for the UK input to ISO/TC 46, including ISO/TC 46/SC 4 and ISO/TC 46/SC 8, and for related British Standards.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (16)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD ISO/TS 17955 Information and documentation — Information Governance — Implementation framework

Categories: Unclassified documents

Proposal begins :
Proposal
PD ISO/PAS 25955 Data Documentation Initiative

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2025-07-14
Drafting
ISO/TC 46 N 2907, ISO/NP 5266 Information and documentation -- Romanization of Cantonese

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Information sciences. | ICT | Information technology | Information technology. Languages | Information technology applications

Proposal begins : 2020-05-19
Proposal
BS ISO 9985 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Armenian characters into Latin characters

Categories: Writing and transliteration

Approval begins : 2025-06-26
Approval
BS ISO 9984 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Georgian characters into Latin characters

Categories: Writing and transliteration

Approval begins : 2025-06-26
Approval
BS ISO 9 Information and documentation — Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters — Slavic and non-Slavic languages

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2025-06-22
Drafting
BS ISO 5127 Information and documentation — Foundation and vocabulary

Categories: Unclassified documents

Proposal begins :
Proposal
BS ISO 25279 International statistics for school libraries

Categories: Unclassified documents

Proposal begins :
Proposal
BS ISO 25244 Archives performance indicators

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2025-10-01
Drafting
BS ISO 233-1 Information and Documentation — Part 1: Arabic language — Transliteration

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2025-09-19
Drafting
Published (47)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD ISO/TS 28560-4:2023 Information and documentation. RFID in libraries. Encoding of data elements based on rules from ISO/IEC 15962 in an RFID tag with partitioned memory

Categories: | IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing

Published standard begins : 2023-07-25
Published standard
PD ISO/TR 28118:2009 Information and documentation. Performance indicators for national libraries

Categories: Information sciences

Published standard begins : 2009-05-27
Published standard
PD ISO/TR 22428-1:2020 Managing records in cloud computing environments. Issues and concerns

Categories: Information sciences

Published standard begins : 2020-09-25
Published standard
PD ISO/TR 21946:2018 Information and documentation. Appraisal for managing records

Categories: Information sciences

Published standard begins : 2018-11-14
Published standard
PD ISO/TR 14873:2013 Information and documentation. Statistics and quality issues for web archiving

Categories: Information sciences

Published standard begins : 2013-12-03
Published standard
PD ISO/TR 11219:2012 Information and documentation. Qualitative conditions and basic statistics for library buildings. Space, function and design

Categories: Information sciences

Published standard begins : 2012-06-06
Published standard
PD 0017:2001 Business documents. Guidance on effective layout and presentation

Categories: Documents

Published standard begins : 2001-04-27
Published standard
BS ISO 9707:2008 Information and documentation. Statistics on the production and distribution of books, newspapers, periodicals and electronic publications

Categories: Information sciences

Published standard begins : 2008-10-03
Published standard
BS ISO 9230:2007 Information and documentation. Determination of price indexes for print and electronic media purchased by libraries

Categories: Information sciences

Published standard begins : 2007-05-15
Published standard
BS ISO 8459:2009 Information and documentation. Bibliographic data element directory for use in data exchange and enquiry

Categories: Information sciences | IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing

Published standard begins : 2009-08-06
Published standard
Withdrawn (37)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

WD/AMD14691 (TO BSISO11620 : 1998) BSISO11620 : 1998 Information and documentation - Library performance indicators

Categories: Information sciences

Withdrawn begins : 2008-09-09
Withdrawn
PD ISO/TS 28560-4:2014 Information and documentation. RFID in libraries. Encoding of data elements based on rules from ISO/IEC 15962 in an RFID tag with partitioned memory

Categories: | IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing

Withdrawn begins : 2023-07-25
Withdrawn
PD ISO/TR 20983:2003 Information and documentation. Performance indicators for electronic library services

Categories: Information sciences

Withdrawn begins : 2008-09-09
Withdrawn
BS ISO 3166-3:2013 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. Code for formerly used names of countries

Categories: Documents

Withdrawn begins : 2020-08-26
Withdrawn
BS ISO 3166-3:1999 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. Code for formerly used names of countries

Categories: Information sciences | Documents

Withdrawn begins : 2013-11-26
Withdrawn
BS ISO 3166-2:2013 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. Country subdivision code

Categories: Documents

Withdrawn begins : 2020-08-27
Withdrawn
BS ISO 3166-2:2007 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. Country subdivision code

Categories: Documents

Withdrawn begins : 2013-11-27
Withdrawn
BS ISO 28560-3:2023 Information and documentation. RFID in libraries. Fixed length encoding

Categories: | IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing

Withdrawn begins : 2024-10-31
Withdrawn
BS ISO 28560-3:2014 Information and documentation. RFID in libraries. Fixed length encoding

Categories: | IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing

Withdrawn begins : 2023-04-26
Withdrawn
BS ISO 28560-3:2011 Information and documentation. RFID in libraries. Fixed length encoding

Categories: | IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing

Withdrawn begins : 2014-08-21
Withdrawn