German Institute for Standardization (DIN) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

As cooperative partners of the German Institute for Standardization, the German National Library is involved in standardisation processes both within Germany and internationally. Staff from the German National Library are members of the Standards Committees Information and Documentation (NID) and Information Technology and selected IT Applications (NIA). These comprise subcommittees for

• Transliteration and transcription,
• Quality – statistics and performance evaluation,
• Presentation, identification and description of documents,
• Country codes,
• Collection preservation in archives and libraries,
• Records management and long-term archiving of digital information objects, and
• Character encoding.

The German National Library is also one of the sponsors of the NID.

We also participate in the standardisation committees for quality assessment for national libraries and for Universal Coded Character Set run by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

More about the DIN Standards Committee Information and Documentation (NID)

More about the DIN Standards Committee Information Technology and selected IT Applications (NIA)