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Standards

In Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, it is

The following standards and standardization activities are relevant to biological and museum informatics and are for the most part employed, or are being considered for employment, on this site.

See also: Technical resources for this site.

Standards Development Activities

• Museum Informatics Project (MIP) at UC Berkeley
• Cultural Heritage Information Online (Project CHIO)
• Standards Framework for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (MCN/CIMI)

Standards Organizations

• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
• Association of Systematics Collections
• Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR)
• Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
• Computer Interchange of Museum Information Committee (CIMI)
• Federal Geographic Data Committee
• Getty Museum Art History Information Program
• International and National Standards Organizations Overview (from the CIMI Framework Document)
• International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums (CIDOC/ICOM)
• Museum Computer Network
• National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Press
• OGIS: Open Geodata Interoperability Specification
• SGML Open
• Visual Resources Assocation Data Standards Committee

Standards

• DEscription Language for Taxonomy (DELTA)
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
• HyTime Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (SGML Hyperlinks)
• International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums (CIDOC) Data Model
• Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Material: Topical Terms for Subject Access
• SPECTRUM - The U.K. Museum Documentation Standard
• Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
• U.S. Geological Survey Mapping Standards
• Z39.50 Query/Response Protocol for Information Access

Authority Files

Updated , Jim Croft (jrc@anbg.gov.au)