International Organization for Standardization
ISO
An independent international body that develops and publishes voluntary consensus standards across virtually all industries.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental international standards body composed of representatives from national standards organizations of over 160 member countries. ISO develops and publishes voluntary international standards covering nearly every industry. In the metadata domain, ISO standards such as ISO 15836 (Dublin Core), ISO 19115 (geographic information metadata), ISO 2709 (bibliographic records), and the ISO 8601 date format provide foundational frameworks used globally for interoperable resource description and data exchange.
Standards (6)
ISO 19115 Geographic Information -- Metadata
(ISO 19115)The foundational international schema for describing geographic datasets and spatial services.
ISO 20775 Holdings Schema
(ISO 20775)An XML schema for expressing library holdings information in a standardized, interoperable format.
ISO 25577 MarcXchange
(MarcXchange)An ISO standard XML format for the exchange of MARC-structured bibliographic records across systems.
ISO 639 Language Codes
(ISO 639)The international standard for language identification codes used across libraries and information systems.
MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Interface
(MPEG-7)An ISO standard for describing multimedia content features to enable search, filtering, and retrieval.
Web ARChive Format
(WARC)A container format for aggregating and preserving web crawl data including HTTP requests, responses, and metadata.
