ISO 2146 is anISO standard defining aninformation model for "registry services forlibraries and related organisations".[1] Operating at a higher level than item-level standards such asMARC, it takes as principal elementsparties (people or organisations),collections (of books,data, etc.),services andactivities (grants, projects, etc.)
The first edition of ISO 2146 was published in 1972,[2] as "Directories of libraries,information anddocumentation centres"; the second edition was published in 1988.[3] The third edition was initially driven by the need to supportinterlibrary loan services online, but it has been broadened in scope to encompass the rules for registries operating in a network environment to provide the information about collections, parties, activities and services needed by libraries and related organizations tomanage their collections and deliver information and documentation services across a range of applications and domains.
The third edition reached publication stage in March 2010.[4]
TheResearch Data Australia service (formerly theANDS Collections Registry) run by theAustralian National Data Service usesRIF-CS, a profile of ISO 2146, as adata interchange format.[5]
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