About
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Secretariat: BSI
Committee Manager: -
Chairperson (until end 2026):Mr Alan Shipman
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ISO Technical Programme Manager [TPM]:ISO Editorial Manager [EM]:
- Creation date: 1978
Scope
Standardization of technologies and processes involving capture, indexing, storage, retrieval, distribution and communication, presentation, migration, exchange, preservation, integrity maintenance and disposal in the field of document management applications. Documents may be managed in micrographic or electronic form.
This includes:
- quality control and integrity maintenance;
- input/output quality of documents (micrographic or electronic)
- implementation, inspection and quality control procedures for storage, use and preservation of documents (micrographic or electronic), including supportive metadata;
- applications involving workflow (process management) in an enterprise and on the Internet;
- maintenance of quality and integrity during information exchange between systems;
- procedures and processes supporting legal admissibility and/or integrity and security;
- management of related audit trail information.
Excluded:
- records management policies and procedures within the scope of TC 46;
- all work on information, process and production definitions and workflow of industrial automation systems within the scope of TC 184;
- cinematography, dimensions and labeling of raw-stock film, and the methods within the scope of ISO/TC 42 dealing with testing, rating, classifying and specifying the performance characteristics of processes, materials and devices applicable to photography;
- work being done by ISO/IEC JTC1 that is within its scope and in particular work of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 23, SC 24, SC 27, SC 28, SC 29, SC 32 and SC 34.
NOTE
Where potential or actual overlap with other TCs exists JWGs will be actively pursued.
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This committee contributes with 44 standards to the following Sustainable Development Goal:
Reference | Title | Type |
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ISO/TC 171/SC 1 | Quality, preservation and integrity of information | Subcommittee |
ISO/TC 171/SC 2 | Document file formats, EDMS systems and authenticity of information | Subcommittee |
ISO/TC 171/CAG 1 | Advisory group | Working group |
ISO/TC 171/TF 1 | Micrographics Standards Maintenance | Working group |
Joint working groups under the responsibility of another committee
Reference | Title |
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ISO/TC 42/JWG 26 | Joint ISO/TC 42-TC 46/SC 11-TC 171 WG: Imaging system capability qualification for archival recording and approval |
Liaison Committees to ISO/TC 171
The committees below can access the documents of ISO/TC 171:
Reference | Title | ISO/IEC |
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ISO/IEC JTC 1 | Information technology | ISO/IEC |
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 | Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection | ISO/IEC |
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 28 | Office equipment | ISO/IEC |
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 | Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information | ISO/IEC |
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 | Document description and processing languages | ISO/IEC |
ISO/TC 42 | Photography | ISO |
ISO/TC 46 | Information and documentation | ISO |
Liaison Committees from ISO/TC 171
ISO/TC 171 can access the documents of the committees below:
Reference | Title | ISO/IEC |
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ISO/TC 46/SC 11 | Archives/records management | ISO |
Date | Month | Location | TC/SC | Note |
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28-2 | April-May 2025 | Concord (United States) | ISO/TC 171 | ** |
28-2 | April-May 2025 | Concord (United States) | ISO/TC 171/SC 2 |
* Information definite but meeting not yet formally convened
** Provisional
ISO/TC 171 - Secretariat
BSI [United Kingdom]
London W4 4AL
United Kingdom