ISO 16175
The international standard setting out principles and functional requirements for managing records in digital environments, complementing the principles-based ISO 15489.
ISO 16175 is the international standard that specifies principles and functional requirements for managing records in digital environments. Where ISO 15489 describes the concepts of good records management in general, ISO 16175 translates those concepts into concrete requirements for the software and systems that hold electronic records — capture, classification against a file plan, retention and disposition, metadata, access control, and audit trails.
It is widely used internationally as a basis for evaluating records management functionality, playing a role similar to the U.S. DoD 5015.2 standard. Together, ISO 15489 (principles), ISO 16175 (digital functional requirements), and product testing give organizations a layered way to design sound recordkeeping and verify that their systems support it.