ISO/TC 46 is Technical Committee 46 of the

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(ISO), responsible for Information and documentation.

Overview

The scope of the committee is 'standardization of practices relating to

libraries A library is a collection of Document, materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or electronic media, digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a ...

documentation Documentation is any communicable material that is used to describe, explain or instruct regarding some attributes of an object, system or procedure, such as its parts, assembly, installation, maintenance and use. As a form of knowledge manageme ...

and

information centre A visitor center or centre (see American and British English spelling differences), visitor information center, tourist information center, is a physical location that provides tourist information to visitors. Types of visitor center A visit ...

publishing Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

archives An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual o ...

records management Records management, also known as records and information management, is an organizational function devoted to the management of information in an organization throughout its life cycle, from the time of creation or receipt to its eventual dispos ...

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...

documentation, indexing and abstracting services, and

information science Information science (also known as information studies) is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, dissemination, and protection of information. ...

Leadership

The Technical Committee Chair for term 2018-2022 is Gaëlle Béquet, from France, who is currently in her second term as chairperson (the first was 2014-2017). Françoise Pellé, also french, served as Chair of the ISO/TC 46 from 2008 to 2014.

Subcommittees

Most work of the Technical Committee is done by Subcommittees (SC) dealing with a particular field. The Subcommittees are: * ISO/TC 46/SC 2: Conversion of written languages (Inactive) * ISO/TC 46/SC 3: Terminology of information and documentation (Inactive) * ISO/TC 46/SC 4: Technical

interoperability Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems. While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for information exchange, a broader defi ...

* ISO/TC 46/SC 5: Monolingual and multilingual thesauri and related indexing practices (Inactive) * ISO/TC 46/SC 6:

Bibliographic Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...

data elements in manual and machine systems (Inactive) * ISO/TC 46/SC 7: Presentation of publications (Inactive) * ISO/TC 46/SC 8: Quality - Statistics and performance evaluation * ISO/TC 46/SC 9: Identification and description * ISO/TC 46/SC 10: Requirements for document storage and conditions for preservation * ISO/TC 46/SC 11: Archives/records management

References

External links

*http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20080914090731/http://www.niso.org/international/sc9/ (Secretariat on behalf of ANSI)
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Overview

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