Memberships
Link Affiliates participates in national and international standards activities, chairing committees and actively participating in working groups.
Our technical expertise allows us to broker relationships between local e-research and e-learning communities and relevant standards organisations. This allows real Australian experts to become directly involved in standards development, while our team help navigate the processes and politics.
We have two models of involving Australian groups in the standards process. Either, the team facilitate the participation of Australian experts in the standards process, or we undertake the work ourselves in consultation with Australian experts.
We are active in the following standards organizations:
Standards Australia IT-019 and IT-019-01
Standards Australia IT-019 Computer Applications - Information and Documentation committee standardises practices relating to libraries, documentation and information centres, indexing and abstracting services, archives, information science and publishing.
The IT-019-01 Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training subcommittee produces standards in the field of information technologies for learning, education, and training to support individuals, groups, or organizations, and to enable interoperability and reusability of resources and tools.
IT-19 & IT-019-01 mirror and participate in the work of the equivalent international committees:
- IT-19 mirrors ISO TC46 SC4.
- IT-019-01 mirrors ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36.
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 is Subcommittee 36 (Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training) within Joint Technical Committee 1 (Information Technology) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
It produces standards in the field of "information technologies for learning, education, and training to support individuals, groups, or organizations, and to enable interoperability and reusability of resources and tools".
ISO TC46 SC4
ISO TC46 SC4 is Technical Committee 46 (Information and Documentation), Subcommittee 4 (Technical Interoperability) within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
It is responsible for "technical standards used to facilitate interoperability of information services such as libraries, information centers, indexing and abstracting services, archives, and publishers. These technical standards include standards for information retrieval and interlibrary loan, applications of SGML, data elements directories, data formats, character sets, codes and user commands".
IMS Global Learning Consortium
IMS Global Learning Consortium is "a global, non-profit, member association that provides leadership in shaping and growing the learning and educational technology industries through collaborative support of standards, innovation, best practice and recognition of superior learning impact".
IEEE LTSC
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) LTSC (Learning Technology Standards Committee) develops internationally accredited technical standards, recommended practices, and guides for learning technology.
NISO
NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, a non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), "identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information in our changing and ever-more digital environment. NISO standards apply both traditional and new technologies to the full range of information-related needs, including retrieval, re-purposing, storage, metadata, and preservation".
OASIS
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets.
Masie Learning Consortium
The Masie Learning Consortium is a network of 252 organisations that "turn to each other and the staff of The MASIE Center for benchmarking, networking, research and collaborative projects in the Learning and Training field". They collectively are "evaluating, inventing, revising and improving the exciting field of learning! This is a community of trust, appropriate confidentiality and syndicated efforts to enhance the effectiveness of our efforts on learning and training".
