Archived PRISM Specs

In 1999, IDEAlliance founded the PRISM Working Group to address emerging publisher requirements to utilize standardized metadata to facilitate content management, aggregation, and search. Since that time, the PRISM metadata framework has been broadly implemented by both magazine and journal publishers.

PRISM 1.0 was published in 2001.  PRISM 2.0 published in 2008, was the first major revision in the specification since its initial release. PRISM 2.1, published in 2010 provided the ability for publishers and media companies to manage and track rights and permissions for a wide variety of media assets across multiple delivery platforms and distribution channels.