New and Emerging Specs & Standards (October 2025)
ISO/IEC 19757-3:2025 — Information technology — Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) Part 3: Rule-based validation using Schematron
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34
“This document specifies Schematron, a schema language for XML. This document establishes requirements for Schematron schemas and specifies when an XML document matches the patterns specified by a Schematron schema. Schematron uses query languages such as XPath for writing assertions.”
ISO/IEC 40500:2025 – Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1
“Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 defines how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility involves a wide range of disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities. Although these guidelines cover a wide range of issues, they are not able to address the needs of people with all types, degrees, and combinations of disability. These guidelines also make Web content more usable by older individuals with changing abilities due to aging and often improve usability for users in general.”
ISO/IEC 6523-2:2025 – Information technology — Structure for the identification of organizations and organization parts Part 2: Registration of organization identification schemes
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32
“This document specifies the procedure for registration of organization identification schemes, and the requirements for the administration of International Code Designator values, to designate these organization identification schemes.”
ISO/IEC TR 21221:2025 – Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Beneficial AI systems
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42
“This document describes the delivery of functional, economic, environmental, social, societal, cultural, intellectual and personal benefits by AI systems as perceived by their stakeholders. The document includes illustrative use cases of AI systems.”
ISO/IEC TS 6254:2025 – Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Objectives and approaches for explainability and interpretability of machine learning (ML) models and artificial intelligence (AI) systems
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42
“This document describes approaches and methods that can be used to achieve explainability objectives of stakeholders with regard to machine learning (ML) models and artificial intelligence (AI) systems’ behaviours, outputs and results. Stakeholders include but are not limited to, academia, industry, policy makers and end users. It provides guidance concerning the applicability of the described approaches and methods to the identified objectives throughout the AI system’s life cycle, as defined in ISO/IEC 22989.”
The Battle Against the Bots [Computers in Libraries: Vol. 45 No. 7]
“Content providers on the web face incredible technical challenges brought on by armies of automated bots, especially those associated with gathering data for AI products and projects. Bots have been around since the beginning of the web, serving as search engine crawlers as well as scanning for security vulnerabilities by individuals and organizations that are seeking opportunities for ransomware attacks or other malicious endeavors. For many content providers, the overhead incurred by bot activity has intensified dramatically in recent months, imposing unbearable strain on resources to the point that performance for actual users has become constrained.”
