Using International Standards to link Intellectual Property Metadata.
Maximizing the Value of Networked Audiovisual Libraries (2005) - Aguilera & Robles
With the publication of the ISAN as an ISO standard in 2004, National Libraries around the world were encouraged to adopt its use for archival purposes and to facilitate discovery of audiovisual works. Francisco Aguilera, the first President of the ISAN International Agency, and Elmer Robles describe how the ISAN Ontology can be used to generate value by associating audiovisual works with each other. One of the major European Union challenges at the time was to categorize audiovisual works based on "nationality" in order to gather statistics on cultural influences.