Standards And Guidelines: an E-directory (SAGE) has been developed and published by the Collections Council of Australia Ltd. The purpose of SAGE is to provide up-to-date and reliable information to assist collecting organisations identify standards and guidelines that meet their specific needs.

SAGE provides a list of relevant standards and guidelines and, where possible, evaluates the standard by providing comments on coverage, usability and relationship to other standards.

SAGE has been developed in conjunction with the Digital Standards Bibliography, Version 3.0, and all standards identified in the bibliography are also included in SAGE. The Bibliography is intended to provide a list of standards current at the time of publication, while SAGE is intended to provide an opportunity to update and maintain information about digital collection standards and guidelines as they change over time.

Related websites

Please see below list of similar websites currently available to assist collections. Note: these sites are either not developed specifically for the Australian environment and/or are limited to certain topics, such as digital collections.

DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks published by the Digital Curation Centre.

Digitisation Guidelines published by the Minerva Project.

JISC Standards Catalogue hosted by UKOLN for JISC standards activity.

Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) managed by the National Library of Australia with the support of Digital Preservation Coalition, Erpanet and Nestor.

Key to SAGE Icons

This icon denotes resources considered relevant to organisations across the collections sector, even where developed for one or more domain.

or These icons identify whether compliance with resource is mandatory or voluntary.

These icons identify the country of origin of the resource (eg International, Australia, Europe, UK or USA).

Acknowledgements

The Collections Council thanks: