The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 46 Information and documentation is responsible for developing standards for the library community. ISO 28560-2 Information and documentation - Data model for use of radio frequency identifier (RFID) in libraries - Part 2: Encoding based on ISO/IEC 15962 reached a significant milestone on 19 May 2008 when the Committee Draft version was approved after an International ballot. The standard specifies a set of mandatory and optional data elements that may be encoded on an RFID tag in a highly flexible manner.
This is a significant and innovative development from existing proprietary and national standards that either encode a single piece of information or require fixed message structures. ISO 28560-2 builds on the RFID Data Protocol standards that are increasingly being used in a number of areas for different applications.
A number of months will elapse before the standard goes through its further stages of approval before publication. In the meantime, we plan to make a demonstrator of the software available.