New and Emerging Specs & Standards (July 2025)
ISO 11108:2025 — Information and documentation — Archival paper — Requirements for permanence and durability
Technical Committee: ISO/TC 46/SC 10
“This document specifies the requirements for archival paper. It is applicable to unprinted papers intended for documents and publications required for permanent retention and frequent use. For these documents and publications, paper of high permanence and high durability is required.”
ISO 9706:2025 — Information and documentation — Paper for documents — Requirements for permanence
Technical Committee: ISO/TC 46/SC 10
“This document specifies the requirements for permanent paper intended for documents. It is applicable to unprinted papers. It is not applicable to boards.”
ISO/IEC 42005:2025 — Information technology — Artificial intelligence (AI) — AI system impact assessment
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42
“ISO/IEC 42005 provides guidance for organizations conducting AI system impact assessments. These assessments focus on understanding how AI systems — and their foreseeable applications — may affect individuals, groups, or society at large. The standard supports transparency, accountability and trust in AI by helping organizations identify, evaluate and document potential impacts throughout the AI system lifecycle. AI technologies are rapidly reshaping industries, economies and daily life — offering immense benefits, but also raising ethical, social and environmental concerns. ISO/IEC 42005 plays a crucial role in ensuring these impacts are responsibly addressed. By guiding organizations through structured impact assessments, it enables them to align AI development with values such as fairness, safety, and human-centered design. It also supports broader governance and risk management practices, reinforcing trust and societal acceptance of AI systems.”
ISO/IEC 25389:2025 — Information technology — The safe framework
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1
“This document provides a framework of recommendations for organizations that offer a public-facing digital product or service for which they conduct trust and safety operations to control or manage content- and conduct-related risks. This document also includes recommendations for assessing the implementation of practices for addressing content- and conduct-related risks.”
ISO 12231-1:2025 — Digital imaging — Vocabulary Part 1: Fundamental terms
Technical Committee: ISO/TC 42
“This document defines terms used in digital imaging.”
MARC 21 Update No. 40: Full and Concise available online [Library of Congress]
“Update No. 40 (June 2025) is now available on the MARC website (www.loc.gov/marc/). It is integrated into the documentation for each of the Online Full and Concise formats that are maintained on that site -- the Bibliographic format, Authority format, Holdings format, Classification format, and Community Information format. The documentation includes changes made to the MARC 21 formats resulting from proposals which were considered by the MARC 21 community since the publication of Update No. 39 (December 2024).”
W3C invites implementations of MathML Core [W3C]
“The Math Working Group has published MathML Core as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. This specification defines a core subset of Mathematical Markup Language, or MathML, that is suitable for browser implementation. MathML is a markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Comments are welcome via GitHub issues by 30 September 2025.”
Scholarly blogs and their place in the research nexus [Crossref]
“A blog post may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of scholarly outputs. But scholarly blogs have been around since at least the early 2000s and have carved out a niche for themselves as a type of “grey literature” that allows researchers to write about research in a way that may not fit neatly into more traditional, peer-reviewed publishing venues, but also is too long-form for social media. Science blogs can give readers a window into ongoing work that isn’t ready to publish yet, serve as a self-publishing venue, or allow researchers to comment on others’ work and recent developments in science and science communication. These kinds of perspectives add crucial context to the scholarly record that should not be overlooked.”
