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International standards
Several international norms are relevant to the process of professional archiving:
• Norm ISO 63936 for identifying and describing the language of the document archives; this norm is also important for the international transmission of data over the internet.
• Norm ISO 5963 for examining documents, determining their subject, and selecting indexing terms.
• Norm ISO 2788 for establishing and developing monolingual thesauri.
• Norm ISO 999, which includes guidelines for the content, organization and presentation of indexes.
• ISAD(G) (www.ica.org/en/node/30000) Ge- neral International Standard Archival Description (2nd ed.), adopted by the Com- mittee on Descriptive Standards, Stockholm, Sweden, 19-22 September 1999.
Curation of project archives