The ISO Concept Database
The ISO Concept Database is a comprehensive repository of structured items from standards such as terms and definitions, symbols, codes and coding systems etc.
In recent years, many ISO committees have established databases to store and administer structured concept items from their standards or standards under development, such as
- Terms and definitions
- Graphical symbols
- Codes (language, country, currency etc.)
- Units of measurement
- Product properties
- Data dictionaries of various types, and others.
However, until now, no platform was available to bring together in a single source the content from more than 18 000 ISO standards.
The ISO/CDB allows to search for concepts in more than 18 000 ISO standards. Initially,
three important categories of concepts are covered :
Terms and Definitions,
Graphical
Symbols and Codes (country, currency, language and script). Additional categories
will be included in
due course.
Through this application, standards experts can access and compare all the instances of terms and definitions used by all ISO committees (either as a single word, or as a combination of words). This enhances access to, and sharing of, knowledge. This in turn helps to improve content quality, and prevent duplications or inconsistencies.
Furthermore, the ISO/CDB allows end users in companies or other organizations to easily access standardized reference data, with the possibility of re-using them in their own applications.
The application allows ISO committees to develop and maintain concept items included in standards, helping to further reduce time in the development of new standards and in the review of existing ones.
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