Table of Contents

1. Background
2. Organisation
3. Purpose and value
4. Scoping and selection
5. Resource description and standards
   1. Bibliographic control
   2. Bibliographic content standards
   3. Identifiers
      1. Local or system control numbers
      2. National bibliography number (NBN)
      3. Persistent identifiers
      4. Web identifiers
      5. Specific identifiers
         1. ISAN
         2. ISMN
         3. ISNI
         4. ISRC
         5. ISTC
         6. ISWC
         7. ISSN-L
      6. New developments
   4. Metadata formats
   5. Metadata transmission standards
   6. Standards and the semantic web
   7. Character encoding standards
6. Service delivery
7. Glossary/Useful links
8. Bibliography