1、raising standards worldwideNO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWBSI Standards PublicationBS ISO 27730:2012Information anddocumentation Internationalstandard collection identifier(ISCI)BS ISO 27730:2012 BRITISH STANDARDNational forewordThis British Standard is the UK
2、implementation of ISO 27730:2012.The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to TechnicalCommittee IDT/2/18, Identifiers and metadata.A list of organizations represented on this committee can beobtained on request to its secretary.This publication does not purport to include all the necess
3、aryprovisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correctapplication. The British Standards Institution 2012. Published by BSI StandardsLimited 2012ISBN 978 0 580 65044 4ICS 01.140.20Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity fromlegal obligations.This British Standard was pu
4、blished under the authority of theStandards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 May 2012.Amendments issued since publicationDate Text affectedBS ISO 27730:2012 ISO 2012Information and documentation International standard collection identifier (ISCI)Information et documentation Identifiant internatio
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7、+ 41 22 749 01 11Fax + 41 22 749 09 47E-mail copyrightiso.orgWeb www.iso.orgPublished in SwitzerlandBS ISO 27730:2012ISO 27730:2012(E)ForewordISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of preparing Int
8、ernational Standards is normally carried out through ISO technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison w
9、ith ISO, also take part in the work. ISO collaborates closely with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization.International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.The main task of technica
10、l committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote.Attention is drawn to
11、the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.ISO 27730 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation, Subcommittee SC 9, Identification an
12、d description. ISO 2012 All rights reserved iiiBS ISO 27730:2012ISO 27730:2012(E)IntroductionISO/TC 46, Information and documentation, has developed standard identifiers for a wide variety of entities. However, a standard identifier for collections, fonds and (archival) series has not yet been built
13、. In the past there was no need for such an identifier, but the situation has changed. There are now a large number of collections, fonds and series and a broad range of organizations hosting them. These collections, fonds and series can be physical or electronic, partly physical and partly electron
14、ic, or virtual; they can be available either online via the Internet or offline.The need for identifying collections, fonds and series has emerged as libraries and other cultural institutions develop their collections in cooperation with other institutions, as well as developing and maintaining mult
15、i-institutional collections, so termed “collective collections”. Collections are analysed and compared, weeded, relocated, digitized in whole or in part and made available for searching and other services via their own interfaces and via machine-to-machine interfaces. Unique identification of collec
16、tions, fonds and series enables collection parts in different locations to be linked at a “collection level” for maintenance and discovery. The searchable metadata associated with the collection identifier facilitates the discovery of collections and their strengths and availability, which are parti
17、cularly useful for search engines and metasearch engines. The metadata are also useful for cultural institutions seeking partnerships, whether on a global, regional, national or international scale.While it is possible to use local identifiers, this is not recommended in an environment where global
18、exchange of this kind of metadata is anticipated. The aim of this International Standard is to establish a system which requires neither a registration authority nor large national/regional centres, even if tens or hundreds of thousands of collections, fonds and series are identified.iv ISO 2012 All
19、 rights reservedBS ISO 27730:2012Information and documentation International standard collection identifier (ISCI)1 ScopeThis International Standard establishes the specifications for the International Standard Collection Identifier (ISCI) as a unique international identification system for each col
20、lection, fonds and (archival) series, and part(s) of collections, fonds and series. This International Standard establishes the specifications for the structure of an identifier and promotes the use of the identifier with regard to identifying systems that already exist. It also gives a list of reco
21、mmended metadata elements that describe a collection.This International Standard does not specify the description of collections, fonds and series, nor the relationships between collections and sub-collections.The ISCI is intended for use by organizations that manage collections of cultural material
22、s. These include cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, museums and archives, as well as other types of organizations such as publishers operating in the supply chain of cultural materials.2 Normative referencesThe following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of th
23、is document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.ISO 15511, Information and documentation International standard identifier for libraries and related organizations (ISIL)1)ISO/I
24、EC 10646, Information technology Universal Coded Character Set (UCS)2)Dublin Core Collections Application Profile, March 2007. Available online at http:/dublincore.org/groups/collections/collection-application-profile/NOTE The Dublin Core Collections Application Profile facilitates the description o
25、f collections, fonds and series in general by providing a core set of metadata elements for this purpose. These elements form the basis for the recommended metadata elements listed in this International Standard.3 Terms and definitionsFor the purposes of this document, the following terms and defini
26、tions apply.3.1collectionpermanent or temporary aggregation of physical and/or digital resources accumulated on the basis of some common characteristic, e.g. by location, by type or form of the items, by source or ownershipNOTE 1 See also fonds (3.3).1) The Registration Authority for ISO 15511 can b
27、e found at http:/www.iso.org/iso/standards_development/maintenance_agencies.htm; at the time of publication, it was directly available online at http:/biblstandard.dk/isil/.2) Unicode 6.0 has the same character code repertoire as ISO/IEC 10646:2011 with the exception of the Indian rupee sign. The Un
28、icode standard, however, imposes additional constraints on implementations to ensure that they treat characters uniformly across platforms and applications. For more on the relationship of ISO/IEC 10646 to Unicode, see the FAQ on the Unicode website at http:/unicode.org/faq/unicode_iso.html.INTERNAT
29、IONAL STANDARD ISO 27730:2012(E) ISO 2012 All rights reserved 1BS ISO 27730:2012ISO 27730:2012(E)NOTE 2 This definition was based on the more detailed descriptions in the Dublin Core Collections Application Profile and ISAD(G), 1999.3.2country codecode representing a country nameNOTE Adapted from IS
30、O 3166-1:2006, definition 3.3.3.3fondsassemblage of records, regardless of form or medium, organically created and/or accumulated and used by a particular person, family or corporate body in the course of that creators activities and functionsNOTE 1 See also collection (3.1).NOTE 2 Adapted from ISAD
31、(G), 1999.3.4ISILinternational standard identifier for libraries and related organizationsNOTE See ISO 15511.3.5library identifieralphanumeric element (of the ISIL) designed to accommodate existing national systems of library identification or newly assigned identifiers for libraries or related orga
32、nizations3.6memory organizationcultural heritage institutioninstitution involved in the collection and preservation of cultural information, such as a library, archive or museum that is itself, together with its collections, established as a permanent entity3.7organizationcorporate entity such as an
33、 agency, archive, business, educational or government institution, or museum, that can be formed in subordinate units, and which is capable of providing a service, producing a product, conducting a programme or holding resourcesNOTE 1 Programmes and projects are not organizations (in the context of
34、ISIL) and are therefore excluded. NOTE 2 See ISO 15511.3.8resourcework created as a result of intellectual effort, which can be expressed in physical or digital formNOTE Adapted from ISO 8459:2009, definition 2.39.3.9seriesdocuments arranged in accordance with a filing system or maintained as a unit
35、 because they result from the same accumulation or filing process, or the same activity, they have a particular form, or because of some other relationship arising out of their creation, receipt, or useNOTE A series is also known as a records series.ISAD(G), 19992 ISO 2012 All rights reservedBS ISO
36、27730:2012ISO 27730:2012(E)4 Structure and syntax of the ISCI4.1 Rules for structure and syntaxThe ISCI is a variable-length identifier consisting of two parts:a) the identifier for the organization (ISIL) within square brackets; andb) the collection identifier string, assigned within a specific org
37、anization, identifying either an entire collection, a super collection or a sub-collection.NOTE The depth of a collection hierarchy is a local decision.The parsing rule for ISIL is the first pair of square brackets within the ISCI string. This can be expressed in the following way:ISILcollectionIden
38、tifierStringor formally, using the Backus-Naur Form:= There is no reliable generic method to determine the length of an ISCI when the identifier is incorporated in unstructured text. Collection identifier strings can contain any character, including, for example, spaces or other whitespace character
39、s. In structured text like a metadata record, ISCI parsing can rely on the encoding of the document in which the ISCI is embedded.EXAMPLE 1FI-HHebraica = National Library of Finland: Hebraica collection.EXAMPLE 2FI-HtJ = Helsinki University Libraries, Theology Library: Jewish collection.EXAMPLE 3FR-
40、751041001Casadesus1 = Bibliothque nationale de France. Dpartement des Arts du spectacle. Fonds Christian Casadesus. Archives de la Compagnie du Regain et du Thtre de lAmbigu.FR-751041001 is the ISIL of Dpartement des Arts du spectacle de la BnF.is the internal identifier of the fonds.EXAMPLE 4FR-751
41、041002Douay = Bibliothque nationale de France. Bibliothque de lArsenal. Fonds Georges Douay. Collection de manuscrits et dimprims (pices de thtre et ouvrages relatifs au thtre). Les textes manuscrits sont rassembls en recueils.FR-751041002 is the ISIL of Bibliothque de lArsenal de la BnF.is the inte
42、rnal identifier of the fonds.4.2 Identifier for the organization (ISIL)An ISIL identifies an organization, or one of its subordinate units, that is responsible for an action or service in an informational environment (e.g. creation of machine-readable information). It can be used to identify the ori
43、ginator or holder of a resource (e.g. library material or archive fonds).The ISIL shall be used as the prefix of the ISCI. If an organization does not have an ISIL, it shall first request the ISIL in accordance with ISO 15511 before ISCI assignment can start.An organization can have one ISIL or more
44、. For instance, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin can have a domestic ISIL and another assigned by OCLC(Online Computer Library Center). One, and only one, of these ISILs, ISO 2012 All rights reserved 3BS ISO 27730:2012ISO 27730:2012(E)preferably the one assigned locally, shall serve as the basis for I
45、SCIs assigned by the organization. The order of preference in choosing the ISIL for the ISCI prefix shall be as follows:a) a country-code-based ISIL;b) a non-country-code-based ISIL.EXAMPLEDE-1 = Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus unter den Linden (German national ISIL).OCLC-SBG = Staatsbibliothek zu
46、Berlin, Haus unter den Linden (OCLC-ISIL).In this case, the DE-1 identifier should be used.However, if an organization only has one ISIL, and this is not the national country-code-based ISIL, then this ISIL may be used for the basis of the ISCI.ISILs of subordinate units can be used as the basis for
47、 ISCIs assigned for collections hosted by these units. A collection shall have one, and only one, ISCI assigned; if the ISCI is based on the ISIL of a subordinate unit, a second ISCI based on the ISIL representing the parent organization shall not be assigned to the same collection.Collections, fond
48、s or series scattered in sundry locations (physically or virtually) and/or hosted by several organizations can either use the ISIL of the principal host or register a joint ISIL with the ISIL national agency.International or multinational collections, fonds and series may use the ISIL of the princip
49、al host, if one exists. In future, such collections, fonds and series will be able to utilize a global non-country-code prefix, if and when there is an ISIL agency which assigns and administers these prefixes.The structure and registration of the ISIL is defined in ISO 15511.4.3 Collection identifier4.3.1 GeneralThe collection identifier string is an identifier indicating the collection, fonds or part(s) of the collection.4.3.2 Identifier constructionThe collection identifier string is of variable length.