The Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) is committed to implementing the most current international standards and technologies for the presentation of Internet resources. For the displayof non-roman scripts, DSAL uses Unicode. All of the resources contain Dublin Core as well as other relevant metadata. For bibliographic records, DSAL adheres to the Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 2nd rev. ed. together with the Library of Congress Rule interpretations and presents the records according to the Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) standard. To aid in the discovery of resources by readers, DSAL uses the Open Archives Inititiative technical framework.

In order to address the needs of users with disabilities, DSAL strives to make its resources compliant with the Web Accessibility Initiative.