ISO Focus – April 2008

Information and document management

ISO Focus, April 2008

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We are living in a fast-paced electronic era, dominated by continual technical developments that are dramatically transforming the way we work. Although these developments can bring great advantages and widen our possibilities, the rate of change makes it extremely difficult for businesses to keep-up.

Web and network based communications and platforms are making the classical stable and clearly demarcated storage and management of documents redundant. At the same time, they are significantly widening the availability of information, in multiple languages and language resources.

The April issue of ISO Focus concentrates on how international standards facilitate information and document management in all areas – from presentation to classification, contextualization, management and preservation of information.

ISO standards follow documents through all stages of their lifecycle. They promote records management, as a means to establish control and accountability in business environments. They facilitate the portability, retrievability, compatibility and interchangeability between document management systems across global operations, ensuring the best policies and practices to protect information.

In an exclusive interview, Oracle, whose work on software development has helped numerous organizations manage business systems and information with reliable, secure, and integrated technologies, will tell us more about how international standards offer value-added solutions to their work.

Comment

Catherine Dhérent
Chair of ISO/TC 46
Managing information in a changing age

Guest view

Sergio Giacoletto
Executive Vice President of Oracle Corporation, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)

“Our success depends on hundreds of standards allowing our products to function in today’s complex technological ecosystem.”

Main Focus

Information and document management

Keeping pace with the times – From books to the Internet
Facilitating discovery, interaction and collaboration of knowledge banks
Can machines be smart?
Harnessing the power of Web 2.0 in enterprises
Reducing complexity in business processes
Identifying media content
Coding the world
Records – Essential business enablers
Quantifying quality – Information providers measure up
Geneva’s municipal libraries adopt RFID and use ISO/IEC 15693 for tracking books
Archival boxes for long-term document storage