This is a record of a special lecture at the symposium held in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the enactment of SIST. The paper describes the fifteen years history of SIST, that is, the NIST plan which caused the enactment of SIST, the establishment of Committee on SIST and the concept of standardization, the process of enactment, the methods of announcement, the activity for the spread of SIST and its response of the public concerned, and so on. Then the relation of SIST to ISO and JIS is explained. Lastly, the author describes the characteristics and the contents of the present SIST 01-10 in the following three categories; standards on writing and publication of thesis, standards on bibliographic description of the items in periodicals, and standards on machine readable information interchange.
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