New and Emerging Specs & Standards (December 2024)
ISO 27729:2024 – Information and documentation — International standard name identifier (ISNI)
Technical Committee: ISO/TC 46/SC 9
“This document specifies the International Standard name identifier (ISNI) for the identification of public identities of parties, i.e. the identities used publicly by parties involved throughout the media content industries in the creation, production, management and content distribution chains. The ISNI system uniquely identifies public identities across multiple fields of creative activity and provides a tool for disambiguating public identities that might otherwise be confused. The ISNI is not intended to provide direct access to comprehensive information about a public identity but can provide links to other systems where such information is held.”
ISO/IEC 19788-1:2024 – Information technology for learning, education and training — Metadata for learning resources Part 1: Framework
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36
“This document provides a framework that applies to all resources and specifies how to describe resources. It includes rules governing the way in which descriptions are made. This document provides principles, rules and structures for specifying the description of any type of resource; it identifies and establishes attributes for specifying properties, resources classes, vocabularies and application profiles and the rules governing their use. The key principles set out in this document are framed in a user-centric context and aim to meet the requirements of multilingual and cultural adaptability from a global perspective. This document can be used for the specification of metadata describing any type of resource (not only learning resources). This document is information-technology-neutral and defines a set of common approaches.
This document specifies generic properties, generic resource classes and predefined rule sets for content value rules. These generic elements are proposed in such a way that they can be widely reused, thereby promoting interoperability. This document is applicable to the development of: application profiles based on the ISO/IEC 19788 series but not part of it or any other document based on it; standards consisting of the description of resources (in a broad sense), whether they belong to the domain of education or to any other domain.”
ISO/IEC 18975:2024 – Information technology – Automatic identification and data capture techniques – Encoding and resolving identifiers over HTTP
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31
“This document specifies the different approaches for using HTTP URIs to encode globally unique identifiers. It specifies a dual use data structure. It is both an HTTP URI and a composition of structured item identification properties and optionally descriptive attributes. These can be decomposed and interpreted on their own and/or be used as a pointer to additional information. Methods are described to enable identification uniqueness in the context of AIDC. These rely on either: a) identifiers, such as described in the ISO/IEC 15459 series[7], in the path or query string independent of the internet domain name; or, b) the internet domain name. The document further defines a basic common API for querying online services for information about identified items.”
Updated Candidate Recommendation: Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.2 [W3C]
“The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.2. This document describes how user agents should expose semantics of web content languages to accessibility APIs. This helps users with disabilities to obtain and interact with information using assistive technologies. Documenting these mappings promotes interoperable exposure of roles, states, properties, and events implemented by accessibility APIs and helps to ensure that this information appears in a manner consistent with author intent. This Core Accessibility API Mappings specification defines support that applies across multiple content technologies, including general keyboard navigation support and mapping of general-purpose roles, states, and properties provided in Web content via WAI-ARIA [WAI-ARIA-1.2]. Other Accessibility API Mappings specifications depend on and extend this Core specification for specific technologies, including native technology features and WAI-ARIA extensions. This document updates and will eventually supersede the guidance in the Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 [CORE-AAM-1.1] W3C Recommendation. It is part of the WAI-ARIA suite described in the WAI-ARIA Overview. Comments are welcome via the GitHub issues by 21 January 2025.”
First Public Working Draft: Global Privacy Control (GPC) [W3C]Z
“The Privacy Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Global Privacy Control (GPC). This document defines a signal, transmitted over HTTP and through the DOM, that conveys a person's request to websites and services to not sell or share their personal information with third parties. This standard is intended to work with existing and upcoming legal frameworks that render such requests enforceable.”
