“Technical interoperability”: ISO/TC46/SC4 annual meeting

The author reviews the key events and projects held and discussed within the framework of the ISO/TC46/SC4 plenary meeting. The meeting was held as part of the 47th annual ISO/TC46 meeting week held in London 2020. The subject scope of ISO/TC46 covers a wide range of issues related to document management, indexing and abstracting services, and information science. Due to COVID19 pandemic, all the meetings were moved to online. The committee’s annual meeting was held in this format for the first time. The subcommittees and working groups discussed issues related to international standardization and ongoing projects in this area. The author discusses in detail the presentations by the participants in the plenary meeting ISO/TC46/SC4, held on May 12, 2020. The ISO/TC46/SC4 subcommittee conducts a number of projects to ensure the technical compatibility of library information systems with information science standards in related fields, which are developed by other ISO Technical Committees, as well as other authoritative organizations, i.e. DCMI and W3C. At ISO/TC46/SC4 plenary meeting, the working groups’ chairs reported on the state of the art in corresponding projects of international standards, plans for future were discussed. Subcommittee’s internal activities as well as issues of cooperation with other organizations were also covered.