A brief overview of the international Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the National Information Standards Organization (NIS) as they relate to descriptive cataloging. Presented to 7312: Principles of Cataloging and Classification in Fall 2012 at the University of Missouri School of Information Science and Learning Technology (SISLT).

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Eliot Boden
Principles of Cataloging
and Classification

2. What Are ISO and NISO?
ISO
International Organization for  Voluntary industrial and
Standardization technical collaboration
TC 46  Specifications for products,
NISO
services and good practice
National Information
Standards Organization
 Facilitate creation and
exchange of information
Accredits Writes standards
 Interoperability of data in
ANSI
American National
the globalized information
Standards Institute economy

3. Who Makes Up NISO?

4. NISO & Descriptive Cataloging
 Z39 Standards ANSI/NISO Cataloging Standards
 Full text of standards Z39.19 - Controlled Vocabularies
publicly available on Web Z39.29 - Bibliographic References
 Content and Collection Z39.41 - Information on Spines
Management Committee Z39.47 - Latin Alphabet
 Support cataloging rules Z39.64 - East Asian Characters
like FRBR and RDA Z39.71 - Holdings Statements
 Review and maintenance Z39.85 - Dublin Core

5. References
 (n.d.). ISO – International Organization for Standardization. Retrieved
October 4, 2012, from http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm
 Landesman, Betty. (2010). NISO. Technical Services Quarterly, 27(4), 398-
399. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2010.501003
 Needleman, Mark H. (2012). Update on new NISO and ISO initiatives.
Serials Review, 38(1), 66-67. Retrieved from
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098791311001754
 (n.d.). NISO: How the Information World Connects. Retrieved October 4,
2012, from http://www.niso.org/home/
 Paul, Sandra K. (1999). Standardization bodies in the publishing world.
Publishing Research Quarterly, 15(2), 4-6. Retrieved from
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 The role of standards. (2000). Library Technology Reports, 36(4), 7-18.
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