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ISO Concept Database (ISO/CDB) online - Geneva
27. October 2009
Database for standardized terminology, graphical symbols and codes is live
“Develop innovative new products but do not reinvent the wheel“, that is what we want to achieve
to be competitive. A huge step towards this goal was made
in international standardization.
On October 27th, 2009 the ISO Concept Database (ISO/CDB), a web-based data base for
development, standardization and publication of standardized „concepts“
went online. The goal of the ISO/CDB is to standardize and publish common concepts on an
international basis and make them available to users via a web-database.
ISO/CDB is based on eptos™ technology from Paradine, Vienna. Based on the eptos™ framework
and the ISO software toolkit (for the user interface design, role and user
management, online voting, …) Paradine developed the ISO/CDB in cooperation with ISO. In the
first stage Paradine will also host the ISO/CDB on behalf of
the ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva.
“The ISO/CDB allows users to search for concepts in the ISO collection of more than 18 000
published ISO standards” Reinhard Weissinger, project leader from the
ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva states. Initially, three important categories of concepts are
covered: Terms and Definitions, Graphical Symbols and Codes
(country, currency, language and script). Standards under preparation, maintenance processes
and additional concepts will be included in future versions of the ISO/CDB.
Concepts to be included can be terms and definitions, graphical symbols, product properties,
units of measure, codes (language, country, currency, etc.), data
dictionaries of various types, and other.
Reinhard Pohn, managing director of Paradine explains the benefits of the ISO/CDB for the
industry: “Companies can take over concepts from the ISO/CDB into
their internal systems or run online retrievals. The use of standardized concepts will reduce
errors and misunderstanding in product development, it will shorten time to
market and reduce complexity of business processes.” Mr. Weissinger adds: “The availability
of a comprehensive source of standardized concepts will of course also be
of big benefit to standardization work, as existing concepts can be found easily and reused
in new standards.”
The ISO/CDB may be accessed at:
http://cdb.iso.org. In this first release, users can access via
the “Login as Guest” button (i.e., username and password not needed).
An online guided tour of the ISO/CDB and a “User Guide” are available at
www.iso.org/e-guides (sub-folder: ISO Concept Database).
Access to the ISO/CDB content, in
read-only mode is open to all and free of charge. Download of content will be charged on a
item-by item basis or subscription basis.
About ISO:
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer and
publisher of International Standards. ISO is a network of the national standards
institutes of 162 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva,
Switzerland, that coordinates the system. ISO is a non-governmental organization
that forms a bridge between the public and private sectors.
www.iso.org
About Paradine:
Paradine is an international leading supplier of online metadata dictionaries for
terminology, graphical symbols, product classification, product properties, codes etc.
Paradine offers software-solutions (dictionaries, catalogue-software), professional operation
of dictionaries and extensive consulting services for companies (e.g. BASF, Siemens, Zeiss, …)
industry associations (e.g. eCl@ss , PROLIST, VdZ,…) and standards developing organization
(e.g. ISO, CEN, DIN, …). Paradine solutions include functionality for developing, maintenance
and publication of dictionary content.
www.paradine.at
Press contact:
Reinhard Pohn
reinhard.pohn (at) paradine.at
Paradine GmbH
Prinz-Eugen-Straße 70
1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel: 43-1-236 66 68-0
Fax: 43-1-236 66 68-134
www.paradine.at
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