• 1 Overview
• 2 Leadership
• 3 Subcommittees
• 4 ISO/TC 46/SC 9
  • 4.1 ISO standards overseen by the ISO/TC 46/SC 9
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

The scope of the committee is 'standardization of practices relating to libraries, documentation and information centres, publishing, archives, records management, museum documentation, indexing and abstracting services, and information science'.^[1]

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).^[2]

Françoise Pellé, also french, served as Chair of the ISO/TC 46 from 2008 to 2014.^[3]

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
• ISO/TC 46/SC 3: Terminology of information and documentation
• ISO/TC 46/SC 4: Technical interoperability
• ISO/TC 46/SC 5: Monolingual and multilingual thesauri and related indexing practices
• ISO/TC 46/SC 6: Bibliographic data elements in manual and machine systems
• ISO/TC 46/SC 7: Presentation of publications
• 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

ISO/TC 46/SC 9 is the ninth Subcommittee of ISO Technical Committee 46, and is responsible for identification and description of information resources.

As of April 2008, the TC 46/SC 9 was transferred to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in the United States.^[4]

ISO standards overseen by the ISO/TC 46/SC 9

ISO standard	Name	Abbr.	Example	Standards identifying objects that may use it	Working Group	Registrar
ISO 2108:2017	International Standard Book Number	ISBN	ISBN 978-0-356-42615-0 (GTIN-13)			[1]
ISO 3297:2017	International Standard Serial Number	ISSN	ISSN 0317-8471			[2]
ISO 3901:2001	International Standard Recording Code	ISRC	BR-BMG-03-00729			IFPI[3]
ISO 10324:1997	Holdings statements
ISO 10444	International Standard Technical Report Number	ISRN
ISO 10957	International Standard Music Number	ISMN	ISMN 979-0-060-11561-5 (GTIN-13), old format: M-060-11561-5		unk.	[4]
ISO 15706	International Standard Audiovisual Number	ISAN	ISAN 0000-0000-16FF-0000-Y-0000-0000-9
ISO 15707:2001	International Standard Musical Work Code	ISWC	T-000000001-0	ISRC		Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs[5]
ISO 17316:2015	International standard link identifier	ISLI
ISO 20247:2018	International Library Item Identifier	ILII
ISO 21047:2009	International Standard Text Code	ISTC	ISTC 0A9-2002-12B4A105-7
ISO 26324:2012	Digital object identifier system
ISO 27729:2012	International Standard Name Identifier	ISNI	ISNI <prefix> 999 999 999 999 7	ISWC, ISAN, ISBN, ISSN, ISRC	WG6
ISO 27730:2012	International standard collection identifier	ISCI

• List of ISO Technical Committees

• http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080914090731/http://www.niso.org/international/sc9/ (Secretariat on behalf of ANSI)
• Technical Committee at iso.org
  • standards in iso.org catalogue
  • projects