AS/NZS ISO/IEC 19788.1:2025 provides a framework that applies to all resources and specifies how to describe resources. It includes rules governing the way in which descriptions are made.
Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Abbreviated terms
5 Digital access
6 MLR Resource classes
6.1 General
6.2 Resource class specification attributes
6.2.1 Attribute “Identifier”
6.2.1.1 General
6.2.1.2 Rules for the attribute “Identifier”
6.2.2 Attribute “Canonical identifier”
6.2.2.1 General
6.2.2.2 Rules for the attribute “Canonical identifier”
6.2.3 Attribute “Label”
6.2.3.1 General
6.2.3.2 Rules for the attribute “Label”
6.2.4 Attribute “Name”
6.2.4.1 General
6.2.4.2 Rules for the attribute “Name”
6.2.5 Attribute “Definition”
6.2.5.1 General
6.2.5.2 Rules for the attribute “Definition”
6.2.6 Attribute “Subclass of”
6.2.6.1 General
6.2.6.2 Rules for the attribute “Subclass of”
6.2.7 Attribute “Note”
6.2.7.1 General
6.2.7.2 Rules for the attribute “Note”
6.3 Resource class specification template
6.4 Example of a resource class specification
7 MLR Properties
7.1 General
7.2 Property specification attributes
7.2.1 Attribute “Identifier”
7.2.1.1 General
7.2.1.2 Rules for the attribute “Identifier”
7.2.2 Attribute “Canonical identifier”
7.2.2.1 General
7.2.2.2 Rules for the attribute “Canonical identifier”
7.2.3 Attribute “Label”
7.2.3.1 General
7.2.3.2 Rules for the attribute “Label”
7.2.4 Attribute “Name”
7.2.4.1 General
7.2.4.2 Rules for the attribute “Name”
7.2.5 Attribute “Definition”
7.2.5.1 General
7.2.5.2 Rules for the attribute “Definition”
7.2.6 Attribute “Domain”
7.2.6.1 General
7.2.6.2 Rules for the attribute “Domain”
7.2.7 Attribute “Codomain”
7.2.7.1 General
7.2.7.2 Rules for the attribute “Codomain”
7.2.8 Attribute “Linguistic indicator”
7.2.8.1 General
7.2.8.2 Rules for the attribute “Linguistic indicator”
7.2.9 Attribute “Content value rules”
7.2.9.1 General
7.2.9.2 Rules for the attribute “Content value rules”
7.2.9.3 Content value rule set template
7.2.10 Attribute “Refines”
7.2.10.1 General
7.2.10.2 Rules for the attribute “Refines”
7.2.11 Attribute “Example(s)”
7.2.11.1 General
7.2.11.2 Rules for the attribute “Example(s)”
7.2.12 Attribute “Note(s)”
7.2.12.1 General
7.2.12.2 Rules for the attribute “Note(s)”
7.2.13 Attribute “Best practice(s)”
7.2.13.1 General
7.2.13.2 Rules for the attribute “Best practice(s)”
7.2.14 Attribute “Status”
7.2.14.1 General
7.2.14.2 Rules for the attribute “Status”
7.3 Essential vs non-essential attributes
7.4 Property specification template
7.5 Aggregation of properties
7.6 Example of a property specification
7.6.1 General
7.6.2 Property specification
7.6.3 Associated content value rule set
8 MLR Vocabularies
8.1 General
8.2 Vocabulary specification attributes
8.2.1 Attribute “Identifier”
8.2.1.1 General
8.2.1.2 Rules for the attribute “Identifier”
8.2.2 Attribute “Canonical identifier”
8.2.2.1 General
8.2.2.2 Rules for the attribute “Canonical identifier”
8.2.3 Attribute “Label”
8.2.3.1 General
8.2.3.2 Rules for the attribute “Label”
8.2.4 Attribute “Name”
8.2.4.1 General
8.2.4.2 Rules for the attribute “Name”
8.2.5 Attribute “Open/closed”
8.2.5.1 General
8.2.5.2 Rules for the attribute “Open/closed”
8.2.6 Attribute “Extension of”
8.2.6.1 General
8.2.6.2 Rules for the attribute “Extension of”
8.2.7 Attribute “Set of terms”
8.2.7.1 General
8.2.7.2 Rules for the attribute “Set of terms”
8.3 Vocabulary specification template
8.4 User extensions of MLR vocabularies
8.5 Example of vocabulary specifications
8.5.1 General
8.5.2 Vocabulary “Opportunity types”
8.5.3 Vocabulary “Extended opportunity types”
9 MLR Data elements
9.1 General
9.2 Data element specification attributes
9.2.1 Attribute ” Property identifier ”
9.2.1.1 General
9.2.1.2 Rules for the attribute ” Property identifier ”
9.2.2 Attribute “Subject”
9.2.2.1 General
9.2.2.2 Rules for the attribute “Subject”
9.2.3 Attribute “Content value”
9.2.3.1 General
9.2.3.2 Rules for the attribute “Content value”
9.2.4 Attribute “Language code”
9.2.4.1 General
9.2.4.2 Rules for the attribute “Language code ”
9.3 Data element specification template
9.4 Examples of MLR data elements
9.4.1 EXAMPLE 1
9.4.2 EXAMPLE 2 (content value of the data element from a vocabulary)
10 MLR Records
10.1 General
10.2 MLR record: Components
10.2.1 Component “Identifier”
10.2.1.1 General
10.2.1.2 Rules for the component “Identifier”
10.2.2 Component “Resource”
10.2.2.1 General
10.2.2.2 Rules for the component “Resource”
10.2.3 Component “Content”
10.2.3.1 General
10.2.3.2 Rules for the component “Content”
11 MLR Application profiles
11.1 General
11.2 Application profile specification attributes
11.2.1 Attribute “Identifier”
11.2.1.1 General
11.2.1.2 Rules for the attribute “Identifier”
11.2.2 Attribute “Canonical identifier”
11.2.2.1 General
11.2.2.2 Rules for the attribute “Canonical identifier”
11.2.3 Attribute “Label”
11.2.3.1 General
11.2.3.2 Rules for the attribute “Label”
11.2.4 Attribute “Name”
11.2.4.1 General
11.2.4.2 Rules for the attribute “Name”
11.2.5 Attribute “Description”
11.2.5.1 General
11.2.5.2 Rules for the attribute “Description”
11.2.6 Attribute “Extension of”
11.2.6.1 General
11.2.6.2 Rules for the attribute “Extension of”
11.2.7 Attribute “List of identifiers of templates for property constraints”
11.2.7.1 General
11.2.7.2 Rules for the attribute “List of identifiers of templates for property constraints”
11.3 Application profile specification template
11.4 Constraint on properties
11.5 Constraint on properties template
11.5.1 Shape of the constraint on properties template
11.5.2 Content of the constraint on properties template
11.6 Example
11.6.1 Example of the specification of an application profile
11.6.2 Example of the specification of property constraints
11.6.3 Example of a Conditions Table
11.7 Ordered list of items
11.8 Global content value rule sets
11.9 Extension of an application profile
11.10 Documents specifying application profiles
12 Documents based on this document
12.1 New parts of the ISO/IEC 19788 series
12.2 Documents beyond ISO/IEC 19788 based on this standard
12.2.1 Documents specifying application profiles
12.2.2 Documents specifying MLR entities
13 Generic resource classes and LET related classes
13.1 General
13.2 Generic resource classes
13.2.1 Class “Resource”
13.2.2 Class “Information Resource”
13.2.3 Class “Web Resource”
13.2.4 Class “Representation”
13.3 Other resource classes
13.3.1 Class “Person”
13.3.2 Class “Learning Resource”
14 Generic properties
14.1 General
14.2 Properties whose domain is class “Resource”
14.2.1 Property “has Description”
14.2.2 Property “name”
14.3 Properties whose domain is class “Information Resource”
14.3.1 Property “describes”
14.3.2 Property “has representation”
14.4 Property whose domain is class “Web Resource”
14.4.1 Property “location”
14.5 Properties whose domain is class “Representation”
14.5.1 Property “character encoding”
14.5.2 Property “media type”
14.5.3 Property “refers to”
14.5.4 Property “represents”
15 Generic content value rule sets
15.1 General
15.2 MLR String
15.3 BCP 47
15.4 Boolean
15.5 Date
15.6 Date & Time
15.7 Duration
15.8 HTTP IRI
15.9 IRI
15.10 MEDIA TYPE
15.11 Time interval
15.12 JSON string.
Annex A
Annex B
B.1 General
B.2 Extended Backus-Naur Form notation
B.3 Production rules for ISO/IEC 19788 identifiers
Annex C
C.1 General
C.2 Canonical identifiers for properties (Ps)
C.2.1 General
C.2.2 Rules for property local identifiers (P_ID) and names
C.2.3 Global identifier for conceptual Ps
C.3 Canonical identifiers for resource classes (RCs)
C.3.1 General
C.3.2 Rules for resource class local identifier (RC_ID) and names
C.3.3 Global identifier for conceptual RCs
C.4 Canonical identifiers for generic content value rule sets (PRSs)
C.4.1 General
C.4.2 Rules for generic content value rule sets local identifier (PRS_ID) and names
C.4.3 Global identifier for conceptual PRSs
C.5 Canonical identifiers for application profiles (APs)
C.5.1 General
C.5.2 Rules for application profile local identifiers (AP_ID) and names
C.5.3 Global identifier for conceptual APs
C.6 Canonical identifiers for vocabularies (VOCs)
C.6.1 General
C.6.2 Rules for vocabulary local identifiers (Vocabulary_ID) and names
C.6.3 Global identifier for conceptual VOCs
C.7 Canonical identifiers for vocabulary terms (VOC_TERMs)
C.7.1 General
C.7.2 Rules for vocabulary term local identifiers (Vocabulary_Term_ID) and name
C.7.3 Global identifier for conceptual VOC_TERMs
Annex D
D.1 General
D.2 Categorization of ISO/IEC 19788 parts
D.3 Content of parts specifying resource classes and properties
D.3.1 General
D.3.2 Resource classes
D.3.3 Properties
D.3.4 Generic content value rule sets
D.3.5 Vocabularies
D.4 Content of parts specifying ISO/IEC 19788 application profiles
D.4.1 General
D.4.2 Resource classes
D.4.3 Properties
D.4.4 Generic content value rule sets
D.4.5 Vocabularies
D.4.6 Application profile
D.5 Other rules
Annex E
Annex F
Annex G
G.1 General
G.2 Resource classes
G.3 Properties
G.4 Generic content value rule sets
G.5 Vocabularies
G.6 Application profile
Annex H
H.1 General
H.2 Resource classes
H.3 Properties
H.4 Generic content value rule sets
H.5 Vocabularies
Annex I
I.1 General
I.2 A multipart standard
I.3 Development driven by user requirements
I.4 Multilingual equivalencies and multicultural requirement support
I.5 Re-use of international standards and specifications
