ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards
ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 159 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system.
ISO is a non-governmental organization that forms a bridge between the public and private sectors. On the one hand, many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are mandated by their government. On the other hand, other members have their roots uniquely in the private sector, having been set up by national partnerships of industry associations.
ISO 19115 standard for geospatial metadata. This is a content standard for metadata for data, datasets, and data series. ISO 19119 specifies a metadata content model for describing geospatial web services. ISO19139 specifies a standard xml encoding.
