Details given in this list are believed to be correct at the time of going to press, but new and revised standards are issued regularly. The list includes only recognized national or international standards, and related publications of standards organizations. It does not include standards promoted solely by commercial or professional bodies.

Records management standards and related publications

AS 4390-1996 Records management, Standards Australia. This standard was withdrawn following the publication of ISO 15489, but it remains a valuable source of guidance.

ISO 15489-1:2001 Information and documentation – records management – part 1: general, International Standards Organization.

ISO/TR 15489-2:2001 Information and documentation – records management – part 2: guidelines, International Standards Organization.

PD 0025-1:2002 Effective records management: a management guide to the value of BS ISO 15489-1, British Standards Institution.

PD 0025-2:2002 Effective records management: practical implementation of BS ISO 15489-1, British Standards Institution.

Alphabetical filing rules

ANSI/ARMA 1-1997 Alphabetic filing rules, ARMA International. ISO 12199:2000 Alphabetical ordering of multilingual terminological and lexicographical data represented in the Latin alphabet, International Standards Organization.

Digital storage media

ANSI/AIIM TR 25-1995 The use of optical disks for public records, AIIM.

BS 4783:1988 Storage, transportation and maintenance of media for use in data processing and information storage, British Standards Institution.

ISO 18923:2000 Imaging materials – polyester-base magnetic tape – storage practices, International Standards Organization.

ISO 18925:2002 Imaging materials – optical disc media – storage practices, International Standards Organization.

Forms and documents: creation and markup

ANSI/AIIM TR 32-1994 Paper forms design optimization for electronic image management, AIIM.

ISO 8879:1986 Information processing – text and office systems – standard generalized markup language (SGML), International Standards Organization.

ISO/IEC 15445:2000 Information technology – document description and processing languages – hypertext markup language (ISO-HTML), International Standards Organization.

PD0017:2001 Guide to the preparation of business documents, British Standards Institution.

Information retrieval and language control

ISO 639-1:2002 and ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages, International Standards Organization.

ISO 2788:1986 Documentation – guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri, International Standards Organization.

ISO 3166-1:1997, ISO 3166-2:1998 and ISO 3166-3:1999 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions, International Standards Organization.

ISO 8601:2000 Data elements and interchange formats – information interchange – representation of dates and times, International Standards Organization.