Are there functional standards or operational frameworks for managing physical collections similar to the OAIS for digital collections? ISO standards?

I know there are accreditation processes for cultural heritage organizations, but I'm not really interested in that component. What I would like to do is to understand what are the shared or baseline functional competencies of physical collections management; and I am particularly curious if there is a codified standard theoretic framework for a library and/or archive.

It kind of sounds like a silly question to me because of course there is an entire discipline of standards and best practices out there for library operation; but, I guess I'm just curious if there are comparable frameworks for physical collections as there are for digital collections.

This question was actually sparked by looking at the NDSA "Levels of Preservation" but I figure more people are familiar with OAIS?

Is this a silly question?

AaronC

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Answer by johntait.org

Look up BSI committee IDT/2 for a list of International and British Standards, and their current work:

http://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/Home/Committee/50001768

An example standard is (BS) ISO 11799 Information and documentation - Document storage requirements for archive and library materials