Chinese Version of ISO 5127 Completed

The Chinese version of ISO 5127 (Information and documentation -- Vocabulary) has just been completed. It will be submitted the Standardization Administration of The People's Republic of China, and will become a national standard.
The Working Group consists of five members from National Library of China, National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Science, Tsinghua University Library and Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China.
The national standard is based on ISO 5127, and is added with some terms and explanations suitable to be used in China.

Information Organization Standardization Seminar Held in Beijing

Today, the Seminar on Information Resource Organization and Its Standardization is held in a suburb of Beijing. With 15 speakers and 50 participants, the seminar is co-organized by Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) and National Technical Committee for Information and Documentation Standardization (also under ISTIC). I gave a presentation about the recent developments of international library catataloging standardization and some hot issues in international library cataloging community.
The National Technical Committee for Information and Documentation Standardization is a Chinese counterpart of ISO TC46 and is responsible for the standardization of library and information community in China.

Chinese Standard for Information Terminology about to Be Completed

The Chinese counterpart of the ISO 5127 (Information and documentation -- Vocabulary) is about to be completed this month. The Chinese national standard (GB) began in March of this year, with a working group consisting of six members from National Library of China, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, National Science Library and Tsinghua University Library.