What is ISOcat?

ISOcat is the software and database that implements the ISO 12620 standard and data model. In theory it is one of the many implementations of this standard, in practice it is the only one that currently exists. It can be accessed via http://www.isocat.org/

Currently it is being filled with many categories from for example the EAGLES project, various metadata initiatives and hopefully other sub-disciplines and initiatives. There are bodies made up by linguists that take care that the content of the ISOcat registry is not too fragmented and meets a number of criteria.