Leiden, Netherlands – May 23, 2019
On its annual meeting on 8 May 2019 in Ottawa, ISO/TC 46/SC 9 decided to accept the International Standard Content Code (ISCC) as a Preliminary Work Item (PWI) and to establish a working group with experts from various countries and media sectors.
Sabine Rüsch was nominated as Convenor of the newly established working group. Rüsch is also Chairwoman of the working group (NID) NA 009-00-09 AA (Beschreibung und Identifizierung von Dokumenten) at German DIN, who accepted the standardization proposal for the ISCC in January 2019.
The ISCC has been proposed as a generic content identifier for digital media content in different formats across various industries. Like a fingerprint, the ISCC is created from the content file itself. It can be used to identify digital content and support rights management in decentralized media environments on the blockchain as well as in local repositories.
The ISCC Foundation was established as an independent international nonprofit organization in Leiden, Netherlands to promote the development and adoption of the ISCC. The founding board of the ISCC Foundation includes Kira Lemke, Titusz Pan, and Sebastian Posth and will be extended to additional members.
The aim of the ISCC Foundation is to develop and promote open, interoperable and decentralized content identifier technology that benefits the global community of creators, rightsholders, media companies, institutions and other stakeholders managing digital content.
Contact: Titusz Pan, tp [at] iscc.io