TC 171

Document management applications

Secretariat: ANSI
Secretary: Ms. Betsy Fanning
Chairperson: M. Gérard Cathaly-Prétou (France) until end 2011
Creation date: 1978

Work programme
(drafts and new work items of TC 171)

Business plan (TC)
Working area on ISOTC

Scope:

Standardization of quality control and integrity maintenance in the field of document management. Documents may be managed in micrographic or electronic form.

This includes:

processes involving capture, indexing, storage, retrieval, distribution and communication, presentation, migration, exchange, preservation and disposal;
input/output quality of documents (micrographic or electronic);
implementation, inspection and quality control procedures for storage, use and preservation of documents (micrographic or electronic), including supportive metadata;
applications involving workflow (process management) in an enterprise and on the Internet;
maintenance of quality and integrity during information exchange between systems;
procedures and processes supporting legal admissibility and/or integrity and security;
management of related audit trail information.

Excluded:

records management policies and procedures within the scope of TC 46;
all work on information, process and production definitions and workflow of industrial automation systems within the scope of TC 184;
cinematography, dimensions and labelling of raw-stock film, and the methods within the scope of ISO/TC 42 dealing with testing, rating, classifying and specifying the performance characteristics of processes, materials and devices applicable to photography;
work being done by ISO/IEC JTC1 that is within its scope and in particular work of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 23, SC 24, SC 27, SC 28, SC 29, SC 32 and SC 34.

NOTE

Where potential or actual overlap with other TCs exists JWGs will be actively pursued.

Total number of published ISO standards related to the TC and its SCs:	73
Participating countries:	15
Observing countries:	24

ISO committees in liaison:

JTC 1, JTC 1/SC 23, JTC 1/SC 28, JTC 1/SC 29, TC 6, TC 10/SC 1, TC 42, TC 46, TC 184/SC 4, TC 215

Organizations in liaison:

AIIM, ICA, IFLA, LAS, UNESCO, WCO, WIPO

Subcommittees/Working Groups:

Subcommittee/Working Group	Title
TC 171/AG 1	Advisory group
TC 171/SC 1	Quality
TC 171/SC 2	Application issues
TC 171/SC 3	General issues