All Standards for Any Lifecycle Action

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Authentication

Community Framework for Electronic Signatures: Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community Framework for Electronic Signatures.
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
XKMS: XML Key Management Specification (XKMS)

Authorisation

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

Authorities

ISO 2788: Monolingual Thesauri: ISO 2788, Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Monolingual Thesauri
ISO 5964: Multilingual Thesauri: ISO 5964, Documentation - Guidelines for the Establishment and Development of Multilingual Thesauri

Classification Standards

DDC: Dewey Decimal Classification

Design Standards

ISO 9241-171: Software Accessibility: ISO 9241-171: Ergonomics of Human-system Interaction - Part 171: Guidance on Software Accessibility

Digital Preservation Standards

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

File Formats

JPEG 2000: ISO/IEC 15444: Information Technology - JPEG 2000
OpenDocument (ODF): Open document format for office applications (OpenDocument)
PDF/A: ISO 19005-1: Document Management - Electronic Document File Format for Long-term Preservation
TIFF: Tagged Image File Format

Identifier Standards

ARK: Archival Resource Key
DOI: Z39.84 ANSI/NISO Z39.84 - Syntax for the Digital Object Identifier
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

Imaging Standards

ISO/TR 15801: Electronic Imaging - Trustworthiness and Reliability: ISO/TR 15801: Electronic Imaging - Information Stored Electronically - Recommendations for Trustworthiness and Reliability
ISO/TS 12033: Electronic Imaging Compression: ISO/TS 12033: Electronic Imaging -- Guidance for Selection of Document Image Compression Methods

Internet Protocols

IETF RFC Internet Message Format: IETF RFC Internet Message Format
IETF RFC: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: IETF RFC: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Interoperability Protocols

OAI-PMH: Open Archive Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
XML: Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Metadata Content Standards

AACR: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
AMREMM: Descriptive Cataloging of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Manuscripts
EAC: Encoded Archival Context
IETF Matching of Language Tags: IETF Matching of Language Tags
IETF Tags for Identifying Languages: IETF Tags for Identifying Languages
ISO 15924: Script Codes: ISO 15924: Information and Documentation - Codes for the Representation of Names of Scripts
ISO 3166: Country Codes: ISO 3166: Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries and their Subdivisions
ISO 639: Names of Languages: ISO 639: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages
ISO 8601: Dates and Times: ISO 8601, Data Elements and Interchange Formats - Information Interchange - Representation of Dates and Times
MARC: MAchine-Readable Cataloguing
NCA Rules: National Council on Archives: Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names
RAD: Rules for Archival Description
VRA Core: Visual Resources Association Core

Metadata Description Standard

DACS: Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
ISDF: International Standard for Describing Functions
MAD: Manual of Archival Description
NISO MIX: ANSI/NISO Z39.87 - Data Dictionary - Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
RAD: Rules for Archival Description
VRA Core: Visual Resources Association Core

Metadata Packaging Standards

METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

Metadata Structure Standards

CIF: Crystallographic Information File
Dublin Core: Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
Dublin Core - DCMI Metadata Terms: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms
ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description
ISO 23081: Metadata for Records: ISO 23081: Records Management Processes - Metadata for Records
MAD: Manual of Archival Description
MARC: MAchine-Readable Cataloguing
MODS: Metadata Object Description Schema
PREMIS: PREMIS Data Dictionary for Metadata Preservation
RAD: Rules for Archival Description

Query Languages

CQL: Contextual Query Language

Reference Models and Frameworks

DLM Forum Guidelines: Guidelines on Best Practices for Using Electronic Information: How to Deal with Machine-readable Data and Electronic Documents
FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
ISO 15489: Records Management: ISO 15489: Information and Documentation - Records Management
MoReq: Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records (MoReq)
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
PAS 197: BSI PAS 197: Code of Practice for Cultural Collections Management
SPECTRUM: SPECTRUM: The UK Museum Documentation Standard

Searching Protocols

ADL Gazeteer Protocol: Alexandria Digital Library Gazeteer Protocol
Z39.50: ISO 23950: Information and documentation - Information Retrieval (Z39.50) - Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification

Security Standards

FIPS 186: Digital Signature Standard: FIPS 186: Digital Signature Standard (DSS)
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/TR 12037: Electronic Imaging, Expungement of Information: ISO/TR 12037: Electronic imaging - Recommendations for the Expungement of Information Recorded on Write-once Optical Media

Thesaurii and Word Lists

AGIFT: Australian Governments’ Interactive Functions Thesaurus
UKAT: UK Archival Thesaurus
Workflow Management Coalition, Terminology and Glossary: WFMC-TC-1011, Workflow Management Coalition Terminology and Glossary

XML DTD and Schema

CML: Chemical Markup Language
EAC: Encoded Archival Context
EAD: Encoded Archival Description
MODS: Metadata Object Description Schema
RDF: Resource Description Framework
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative

Joint Information Systems Committee