1. ISO TC46 Information and Documentation

2. TC46 Subcommittees zSC4 - Computer Applications in Information and Documentation zSC9 - Presentation, identification and description of documents

3. SC4 - Computer applications in Information and Documentation zWG1 - Character sets zWG4 - Protocols zWG6 - Electronic publishing zWG7 - Data elements zWG8 - Library codes

4. TC46 membership zTC46 - National Standards bodies yP - voting or O - Observer membership zTC46 Advisory Group - elected reps zSub committees - National standards bodies, also P and O membership zWorking groups - experts zAd hoc groups, joint working groups

5. TC 46 Members zP - Voting members y31 countries - Armenia, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Macedonia, Ukraine, U.K., U.S.A. zO - Observers - 37

6. TC46 SC4 Members zP - Voting Members y18 countries - Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mongolia, Norway, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, U.S.A. zO - Observer members y26 countries - Regular attendees - China, Ireland, Poland, Slovenia, U.K.

7. Why IS? zInternational interoperability zIn two languages; national bodies have right to publish local version, e.g. Translation zIncreased focus on definition where obscure outside national area zNational prejudices

8. Process zNew work item NWI, Recommended by AG, voted by TC46 plenary zWD - in working group zCD - 3 month ballot; 2/3 majority zDIS - in French & English, 5 month ballot, 3/4 majority zFDIS - 2 month ballot; Y/N zWait for publication

9. Process continued zPreference for National Standards as a basis zFast track - voted at SC - skips CD ballot yISO 23950; GEDI; 12083 (SGML) ysaves about 3 months, wasted if DIS voting does not succeed zMinimum time for IS - about 2 years; for Fast track - about 12 months

10. Profiles zISP (International Standard Profile) - same process as IS; therefore zIRP (International Registered Profile) - electronic only, reliant on a standard, therefore needs to stay aligned ye.g. CIMI, UCP

11. Controversial issues zPricing - number of pages versus what the market will bear, free? zWeb availability - emerging after several years of “Canutism” ycore reference standards, e.g. country codes and currency codes ysoon data elements (8459), library codes (15511) and definitions (5127)