[Sigcr-l] Draft of ISO 25964-1 "Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies" Pt1 now available

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PRESS RELEASE
Draft of ISO 25964-1 "Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies. Thesauri for information retrieval" now available

Work has been under way since May 2008 to revise and extend the International standards for thesauri, ISO 2788 and ISO 5964. The updated content of these two standards, plus other material needed to support interoperability, will be combined in a new standard ISO 25964, as follows:
ISO 25964. Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies
     Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval
     Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies

Part 1, officially numbered ISO/DIS 25964-1, has been released as a draft available for public comment until the end of February 2010.

Part 1 covers monolingual and multilingual thesauri. As well as updating the entire content of ISO 2788 and ISO 5964, coverage includes:
            guidelines for thesaurus management software;
            a data model for monolingual and multilingual thesauri;
            recommendations for exchange formats and protocols.
An XML schema for data exchange is included as an informative appendix, and will shortly be made available free of charge at http://www.niso.org/schemas/iso25964/ .

To obtain a hard copy of the whole draft, ask the national standards body in your country.

To view online, go to http://drafts.bsigroup.com/. You have to register on the site, but there is no charge for registration, and it is easy to submit comments on each clause, whether you are in the UK or not.

Development of the standard is managed by a Working Group known as ISO TC46/SC9/WG8, which has participants from 15 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. Further information may be found in the ASIS&T Bulletin, at http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-08/OctNov08_DextreClark.pdf, and in an article in the Technology Watch Report at http://metadaten-twr.org/tag/iso-25964/ .