About Standards
AIIM's Standards Program develops and promotes high quality Enterprise
Content Management (ECM) standards, recommended practices, technical reports,
and industry specifications to support interoperability interchangeability, and
the global enterprise.
AIIM is the official Standards Development Organization
(SDO) for Enterprise Content Management standards authorized by ANSI. It is the
goal of the AIIM Standards Program to support and represent the U.S. interests
at the ISO level.
Through its involvement in the development of PDF,
Portable Document Format, standards, AIIM is becoming the leading authority in
PDF standards.
AIIM Standards serve as a means of:
- Promoting interchangeability and quality control of products;
- Eliminating misunderstandings or confusion between manufacturers and users with respect to products for which standards are adopted;
- Advancing the growth of the industry;
- Benefiting the public health, safety, and welfare; and
- Facilitating domestic and internationl trade,
communication and understanding.
The scope of areas of work undertaken by AIIM's
standards committees is the standardization of terminology, definitions, sizes,
formats, quality, methods of measurement, apparatuses and procedures for the
production, use, and storage and retrieveal of structured and unstructured
content (documents) and related source data and processes related to enterprise
content management.
NEW REVISED 2009 Version! AIIM Recommended Practice (ARP1-2009), Analysis,
Selection, and Implementation Guidelines Associated with Electronic Document
Management Systems (EDMS)
Download your copy today.
New!Visit
the PDF Expert
Corner, a community for PDF users and developers.
Interested in PDF/Archive, register for a public course or take a
web-based course to learn about PDF/A and how it can help your organization -
Visit AIIM Special
Programs to register.
AIIM Best Practices
In a recent
survey of our membership, we found that our members truly value Best Practices.
Click here for more information on AIIM Best
Practices.
Interoperable Standards Roadmap
The iECM Committee is compiling a list of interoperability standards that may
be considered as a part of the ECM interoperability framework used to enable
information sharing across organizational and system boundaries. If you know of
a standard that should be included in the roadmap, please provide the
information by submitting it to iECM Roadmap
Survey.
Check-out and Register - AIIM Standards Watch Blog
The new AIIM Standards Watch Blog will provide quick information about
numerous standards and standards related issues.
Purchase and Download AIIM Standards
As a benefit to AIIM
Professional members, some AIIM Standards are now available for FREE download,
Click Here.
Additional standards will be added, so check back often.
AIIM Standards
are also available in electronic or hard copy format at TECHSTREET
How do I get
involved?
Contact:
Betsy Fanning, Director, AIIM Standards
Program
301-755-2682
bfanning@aiim.org
You may also
want to participate in our Standards Focus
Group which meets on a periodic basis.