Standards Development

Scope

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, (see section 3.79 for a definition of thesauri).

This part of ISO 25964:

— also provides a data model and recommended format for the import and export of thesaurus data.

— is applicable to monolingual and multilingual thesauri.

— is not applicable to the preparation of back-of-the-book indexes, although many of its recommendations could be useful for that purpose.

— is not applicable to the databases or software used directly in search, indexing applications as well as broader use cases including web navigation, artificial intelligence, author tagging, AI applications, but does anticipate the needs of such applications among its recommendations for thesaurus management (see also ISO 25964-2 on interoperability with other vocabularies).