Standards and Other Guidelines
August 7th, 2009
The list includes international standards, both de jure and de facto. In most cases, the short name of the standard (not the fully qualified name) is shown, for ease of understanding.
Standards
- FIPS 186-2 – NIST Digital Signature Standard (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsFIPS.html)
- ISAAR(CPF) – International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (International Council on Archives) (http://www.ica.org/en/node/30230)
- ISAD(G) – International Standard for Archival Description (General). (http://www.icacds.org.uk/icacds.htm)
- IETF RFC 2821 – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt)
- IETF RFC 2822 – Internet Message Format. (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt)
- ISO 216 – Writing paper and certain classes of printed matter – Trimmed sizes – A and B series
- ISO 639 – Codes for the representation of names of languages.
- ISO 2788 – Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri.
- ISO 5964 – Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri.
- ISO 8601 – Representation of dates and times.
- ISO 9834-8 – 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 (see also ITU X.667).
- ISO/TS 12033 – Guidance for selection of document image compression methods.
- ISO/TR 12037 – Recommendations for the expungement of information recorded on write-once optical media.
- ISO 12142 – Media error monitoring and reporting techniques for verification of stored data on optical digital data disks.
- ISO/TR 12654 – Recommendations for the management of electronic recording systems for the recording of documents that may be required as evidence, on WORM optical disk.
- ISO 14721 – Open archival information system – Reference model (OAIS).
- ISO/IEC 15444 – JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding system.
- ISO 15489 – Records Management.
- ISO/TR 15801 – Information stored electronically – Recommendations for trustworthiness and reliability.
- ISO 15836 – The Dublin Core metadata element set.
- ISO 18492/TR – Long-term preservation of electronic document-based information.
- ISO 19005-1 – Electronic document file format for long-term preservation – Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1).
- ISO 23081 – Metadata for records.
- ITU X.667 – Generation and registration of Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) and their use as ASN.1 object identifier components.
(http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/oid/X.667-E.pdf). - TIFF – Tagged Image File Format. (http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/tiff/index.html)
- X.509 – ITU-T Recommendation X.509: Open systems interconnection – The Directory: Public-key and attribute certificate frameworks. (http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.509-200003-I/en).
- XKMS – XML Key Management Spec. (http://www.w3.org/TR/xkms/).
- XML – W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/)
- ISO/DIS 9241-171 – Ergonomics of human-system interaction – Part 171: Guidance on software accessibility
- ISO/TS 16071 – Guidance on accessibility for human-computer interfaces (due to be superseded by ISO 9241-171).
- WfMC – Workflow Management Coalition Terminology & Glossary. (http://www.wfmc.org/standards/referencemodel.htm)
- 1999/93/EC – Directive on a Community Framework for Electronic Signatures. (http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/124118.htm)
- DLM Forum Guidelines – Guidelines on best practices for using electronic information. INSAR (European Archives News) Supplement III (1997). ISBN: 92-828-2285-0. (http://dlmforum.typepad.com/gdlines.pdf)
Accessibility Guidelines and Resources
- For developers
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (for websites and web applications) (http://www.w3.org/WAI/)
- RNIB Web Access Centre (http://www.rnib.org.uk/webaccesscentre)
- RNIB Software Access Centre (http://www.rnib.org.uk/softwareaccesscentre)
- IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Centre (http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/)
- ISO/IEC 18019 – Guidelines for the design and preparation of user documentation for application software (see especially clause 4.2.6). (Due to be replaced by ISO/IEC 26514.)
- ISO/IEC 26514 – User documentation requirements for documentation designers and developers. (Under development).
- For procurement
- ACCENT – Accessibility in ICT Procurement: EU project (http://www.verva.se/english/international-network/the-accent-project/)
- PAS 78:2006 – A guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites (http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publicationsandresources/Disability/Pages/Websiteaccessibilityguidance.aspx)
- RNIB Software Access Centre – (http://www.rnib.org.uk/softwareaccesscentre)
Digital Preservation Guidelines
- InterPARES project (http://www.interpares.org) – Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) project – National Library of Australia (http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/)
- The National Archives – Functional Requirements for the Sustainability of Electronic Records (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/functional_requirements.pdf)
Resource Description Formats
- MARC 21 formats – Representation and communication of descriptive metadata about information items
- MARCXML – MARC 21 data in an XML structure
- MODS (Metadata Object Description Standard) – XML markup for selected metadata from existing MARC 21 records as well as original resource description
- MADS (Metadata Authority Description Standard) – XML markup for selected authority data from MARC21 records as well as original authority data
- EAD (Encoded Archival Description) – XML markup designed for encoding finding aids
Digital Library Standards
- METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard) – Structure for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata
- MIX (NISO Metadata for Images in XML) – XML schema for encoding technical data elements required to manage digital image collections
- PREMIS (Preservation Metadata) – A data dictionary and supporting XML schemas for core preservation metadata needed to support the long-term preservation of digital materials.
- TextMD (Technical Metadata for Text) – XML schema that details technical metadata for text-based digital objects.
- ISO/DIS 25577 – Information and documentation — MarcXchange.
- ISO 20775 – Schema for Holdings Information.
Information Resource Retrieval Protocols
- Z39.50 – Supports information retrieval among different information systems
- SRU/SRW (Search and Retrieve URL/Web Service) – Web services for search and retrieval based on Z39.50 semantics
- CQL (Contextual Query Language) – Formal, user-friendly query language for use between information retrieval systems