Recap of New, Revised, and In Review Standards

Standards are being actively worked on for taxonomies and other terminologies.  Here is a short list of items currently out for comment.  If you would like further information, to have a copy or to comment please let me know.  I will send more soon.  (Margie Hlava, mhlava@accessinn.com)

1.  ISO/FDIS, Terminology work ­ Principles and methods

This is a liaison ballot from  Technical Committee ISO/TC 37, Terminology and other language and content resources, Subcommittee SC 1, Principles and methods.

This is the third edition of the Standard that establishes the basic principles and methods for preparing and compiling terminologies both inside and outside the framework of standardization, and describes the links between objects, concepts, and their terminological representations. It also establishes general principles governing the formation of designations and the formulation of definitions. This International Standard does not stipulate procedures for the layout of international terminology standards, which are treated in ISO 10241.

Add your comments here: ISO-FDIS, Terminology work ­- Principles and methods

2.  ISO/DIS 26162, Design, implementation and maintenance of terminology management systems

An international view of what we do.

Ballot Description This is a ballot for the draft standard, ISO/DIS 26162, Systems to manage terminology, knowledge and content ­ Design, implementation and maintenance of terminology management systems. This ballot is from TC37 / SC3 (Terminology and other language and content resources / Systems to manage terminology, knowledge and content). Since TC46 / SC9 has a liaison with this committee, we can send in vote recommendations and comments.

ISO/DIS 26162 is one of a family of standards to facilitate the exchange of terminological data. This standard gives guidance on choosing the relevant data categories, designing and implementing a data model and a user interface of a terminology management system (TMS) with a view to the intended user group. The phases described here are indispensable for the successful development of a TMS and for avoiding costly errors. The standard may be used for choosing the appropriate TMS for a certain purpose. This standard is intended for terminologists, software developers and others who are involved in the process of developing or acquiring a TMS. 

Add your comments here: ISO-DIS 26162, Design, implementation and maintenance of terminology management systems

3. ISO/CD 13390, Records management systems — Fundamentals and vocabulary

This is a new standard developed to be the basis of the framework for the ISO 30200 family of standards:  Management System for Records. It describes fundamentals of a Management System for Records, which form the subject of the ISO 30200 family, and defines related terms. All other standards in the family use the vocabulary defined in this standard.

Add your comments here:  ISO-CD 13390, Records management systems — Fundamentals and vocabulary

4 . Systematic Review ISO 21127:2006

This is a systematic review ballot for the published standard, ISO 21127:2006, Information and documentation -- A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information.

It is the first edition of the standard that is intended to facilitate the exchange of information between cultural heritage institutions by defining a domain ontology  for cultural heritage information. 

Add your comments here: ISO 21127-2006, Information and documentation -- A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information.

5. ISO/DIS 29383, Terminology policies - Development and implementation

This is a liaison standard from ISO/TC 37, Terminology and other language and content resources, Subcommittee SC 1, Principles and methods.

This standard was previously issued in two parts when it was a Committee Draft (CD). The Draft International Standard (DIS) version has now merged those parts into one standard.

This International Standard provides campaigners, policy-makers and other decision makers in governments and administration, non-profit and commercial organizations with guidelines and a methodology for developing and implementing a comprehensive strategic plan for stating a terminology policy, i.e. a conscious, systematic and managed approach to the creation, maintenance and use of terminology in, and for, defined user communities.

Add your comments here: ISO-DIS 29383, Terminology policies - Development and implementation

6.  Recommendation for the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

SKOS is the cross walk to the NISO thesaurus standard from W3C - related to OWL - Web Ontology Language.  So this is part of your pathway to the Semantic Web

The W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of a Candidate Recommendation for the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Reference:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-skos-reference-20090317/

A new Working Draft of the accompanying SKOS Primer has also been published:http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-skos-primer-20090317/

The Working Group now *calls for implementations.*

We would like to hear of any vocabulary (thesaurus, classification system, subject heading system, taxonomy or other KOS) or mapping between vocabularies that has been published in the Web as
machine-readable data using SKOS, and/or has been made available via programmatic services using SKOS.

We would also like to hear of any software that has the capability to read and/or write SKOS data, and/or can check whether a given SKOS dataset is consistent with the SKOS data model.

See this page for details for notifying the Working Group of either of the above: Notify SKOS Working Group of a vocabulary, vocabulary mapping, or software as a SKOS implementation

Add your comments here: Recommendation for Implementation of SKOS Standard

7. ISO 25964. Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies (currently ISO 2788 and ISO 5964)

      Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval
      Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies

Work has been under way since May 2008 to revise and extend the International standards for thesauri, ISO 2788 and ISO 5964. The content of these two standards, plus a lot more material needed to support interoperability, will be combined in a new standard ISO 25964, as follows:

The work is managed by a Working Group known as ISO TC46/SC9/WG8, which has participants from 13 countries and is led by Stella Dextre Clarke of the UK. The Secretariat is provided by NISO USA). See official website at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/iso25964. The existing British Standard BS 8723 (published in 5 parts during 2005-2008) is being used as a basis for the international work.

A draft of Part 1 of ISO 25964, which will have the number ISO DIS 25964-1, is scheduled for release in the last quarter of 2009, when it will be available for public comment. To obtain a copy, ask the national standards body in your country.

Until DIS 25964-1 is issued, the most recent published news is in the ASIS&T Bulletin, at
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-08/OctNov08_DextreClark.pdf&nbsp

Add your comments here: ISO 25964. Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies