All Standards for Any Lifecycle Action
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Alternative views: Title | Type | Framework | Standards Organisation | Sponsoring Body
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
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