Research Observatory: ISO 25964 Parts 1 and 2 – The Process and the Progress, Status, and Outcomes

ISO 25964 Parts 1 and 2 – The Process and the Progress, Status, and Outcomes

Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations, USA  

Support for search and tagging using controlled vocabularies has been the main focus of the ISO 25964 standard, Thesauri and Interoperability with other Vocabularies, but this support has recently been complicated by the rise of ChatGPT and Generative AI.  The changes in the information access and distribution as well as the usage options expansion with recent applications in daily life automation clearly impact the expanded use cases. Updating the standard to the situation we face today and expect to face in the next 5 years has prompted a massive rewriting of the standard to bring it in line with today’s needs. 

Specifically, as the convener, she will cover the actions of the Working Group for ISO/TC 46/SC 9/WG 8 Information and documentation, during the revision of ISO 25964 (Thesauri and Interoperability with other knowledge organization systems). ISO 25964 Part 1: Thesauri for Information Retrieval, creation, management, and use, which just completed its two years revision and released recently. Then move on to on-going revision of Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies which covers interoperability between different thesauri and with other types of knowledge organization systems (KOS).