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ISO Certification

About ISO and all those confusing acronyms.

ISO is the International Organization for Standards. It collaborated with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to form a joint technical committee (JTC) to develop standards around information technology. That committee is ISO/IEC JTC 1.

JCT 1 has many subcommittees (SC). SC 34 is devoted to document description and processing languages, and thus has jurisdiction over things like EPUB and OpenOffice XML. Hence we speak of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34.

The subcommittee has four working groups. One of these working groups is (of course) a joint working group (JWG) with other ISO and/or IEC committees, devoted to EPUB. So now we have ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/JWG 7.

Types of ISO Documents

  • IS = International Standard
  • DIS = Draft International Standard

An International Standard provides rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or for their results, aimed at achieving the optimum degree of order in a given context. It can take many forms. Apart from product standards, other examples include : test methods, codes of practice, guideline standards and management systems standards.

  • TS = Technical Specification.
  • DTS = Draft Technical Specification.
  • PDTS = Preliminary Draft Technical Specification.

A Technical Specification addresses work still under technical development, or where it is believed that there will be a future, but not immediate, possibility of agreement on an International Standard. A Technical Specification is published for immediate use, but it also provides a means to obtain feedback. The aim is that it will eventually be transformed and republished as an International Standard.

  • AWI = Approved new Work Item

  • PAS = Publicly Available Specification. In some circumstances, if a recognized standards body has already created a PAS, it may be “fast-tracked” and quickly become a Draft International Standard (DIS). For example, Korea had approved a national ebook standard based on EPUB 3.0, which was fast-tracked to become a Technical Standard (ISO/IEC TS 30135-1/7).

Current status

EPUB 3.0.1

Korea will submit (when?) EPUB 3.0.1 as Draft International Standard (DIS) via fast track

EPUB 3.0

ISO/IEC TS 30135-1/7 is a technical standard (TS)

EPUB Accessiblility

New work item proposed for EPUB Accessiblility 1.0 to eventually become an International Standard. Ballot is open from 2018-10-01 to 2018-12-01.

Archiving

ISO/IEC PDTS 22424-1 Information technology -- Digital publishing -- EPUB3 Preservation -- Part 1: Principles

ISO/IEC PDTS 22424-2 Information technology -- Digital publishing -- EPUB3 Preservation -- Part 2: Metadata requirements

EPUB DRM

ISO/IEC AWI TS 23078 Specification of DRM technology for e-book content in EPUB format

Emails about ISO Certification

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