This part of ISO 25964 gives recommendations for the development and maintenance of thesauri intended for
information retrieval applications. It is applicable to vocabularies used for retrieving information from all types
of information resources, irrespective of the media used (text, sound, still or moving image, physical object or
multimedia) including knowledge bases and portals, bibliographic databases, text, museum or multimedia
collections, and the items within them.
This part of ISO 25964 also provides a data model and recommended format for the import and export of
thesaurus data.
This part of ISO 25964 is applicable to monolingual and multilingual thesauri.
This part of ISO 25964 is not applicable to the preparation of back-of-the-book indexes, although many of its
recommendations could be useful for that purpose.
This part of ISO 25964 is not applicable to the databases or software used directly in search or indexing
applications, but does anticipate the needs of such applications among its recommendations for thesaurus
management.