| BSI (British Standards Institution) - Information and records management | CEN (Comité Européen de Normalisation – C'tee for Standardization) - Records Exchange Standard | CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) [US] |
| DAVID Project (Digital archiving in Flemish institutions and administrations) | DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition) | DPE (DigitalPreservationEurope) |
| Dublin Core Metadata Initiative | ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network) | ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) |
| IRMT (International Records Management Trust) | ISO (International Standards Organisation) - TC 46/SC 11 – Archives/Records Management | ISO (International Standards Organisation) - TC 46/SC 4 – Technical interoperability |
| ISO (International Standards Organisation) - TC 176 – Quality management / Assurance | ISO (International Standards Organisation) - JTC 1 – Information technology | ISO (International Standards Organisation) - TC 171 – Document management applications |
| CCSDS - Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) | Sedona Conference - incl 'Guidelines for Managing Information and Records in the Electronic Age' | |
| W3C (World Wide Web Consortium ) - eXtensible Markup Language (XML) |