Standards
As
you know, the ISTC has been investigating ways in which it can provide more
benefits to its members. We are now an occasional distributor for BSI.
Occasional distributorship means that we can buy standards in bulk at a discount.
Most of the discount is passed on to members and others using the scheme,
with just a small amount retained to cover administration costs. To protect
the ISTC from any risk in such a venture, we take advance bookings and then
order an appropriate quantity to fill them.
If there is a standard that you would like to order, e-mail the details (with
your full name, phone number, preferred e-mail address and full
postal address) to Marian Newell. Marian will then publicise the order through the usual ISTC channels
to see if any other members are interested and place an order with BSI for
the appropriate quantity.
10/7/2005
The following links to the various standards organisations web sites may
be used to search for and purchase copies of standards:
Would you like to participate in the development of international standards
in the technical writing community?
Working Group 2 (WG2) is the group within ISO that creates standards for
technical documentation. The unofficial
WG2 web page gives an overview of the standards that are being developed.
WG2 is looking for help with a new documentation standard for managers (informally
known as Project 11). There are two levels of involvement: project authors
write parts of the standard, and project reviewers make comments on the drafts.
See www.hci.com.au/iso/project%5F11/ for more information and to sign up.
- BS 5760 Reliability of systems, equipment and components (multipart standard,
1986 - 2003).
- BS EN ISO 9001:2000 Quality management systems (multipart standard).
- BS 5750 - Quality Systems, Part 1 - Specification for Design/Development,
Production, Installation and Servicing.
- ISO 9001 - Quality Systems - Model for Quality Assurance in Design/Development,
Production, Installation and Servicing.
- BS 5261 - Part 2 - Approved Marks Symbology for Text Proofreading and
Correction.
- BS 7137,1989 Specification for user documentation and cover information
for consumer software packages
- ISO/IEC 11581 - Information Technology - Icon symbols and functions (multipart
standard, parts 1, 2, 3 and 6 have been published).
- ISO/IEC 13251 - Information Technology - Collection of graphical symbols
for office equipment (in final development stage).
- BS ISO/IEC 14143-1:1998 Information technology. Software measurement.
Functional size measurement. Definition of concepts.
- ISO TS 16071:2003 - Guidance on accessibility for human-computer interfaces.
- ISO/IEC 18035:2003 - Information technology - Icon symbols and functions
for controlling multimedia software applications.
- ISO/IEC 18036:2003 - Information technology - Icon symbols and functions
for World Wide Web browser toolbars.
- BS ISO/IEC 20000:2005 is the new standard for IT service management and
replaces BS 15000.
- National Occupational Standards
- BS EN ISO 216:2001 - Writing paper and certain classes of printed matter.
Trimmed sizes. A and B series (replaced BS 4000:1983).
- BS 308-1.16:1997 (BS EN ISO 2203:1997) and BS 308-2.3:1995 (BS EN ISO
1660:1996) Technical Drawings.
- BS 308-1.17:1996 (BS EN ISO 2162.1:1996), BS 308-1.18:1996 (BS EN ISO
2162.2:1996) and BS 308-1.19:1996 (BS EN ISO 2162.3:1996) Technical product
documentation.
- BS 3700:1988 Recommendations for preparing the indexes to books, periodicals
and other documents.
- BS 3811:1993 Glossary of terms used in terotechnology.
- BS 4884 Technical manuals (three parts, 1992 - 1993).
- BS 4899 Guide to user's requirements for technical manuals (based on
the principles of BS 4884) (two parts, 1991 & 1992).
- BS 5097:1974 Specification for loose leaf binders. Ring binders with
metal mechanisms.
- BS 5261 Copy preparation and proof correction (three parts, 1976 - 2001).
- BS EN ISO 5261:1999 Technical drawings. Simplified representation of
bars and profile sections.
- BS 5444:1977 Recommendations for preparation of copy for microcopying.
- BS 5605:1990 Recommendations for citing and referencing published material.
- BS 5641:1982 Recommendations for loose-leaf publications.
- BS 5775 (ISO 31) Specification for quantities, units and symbols (multipart
standard).
- BS 7581:1992 Guide to presentation of tables and graphs.
- IEEE 1063:2001 - Standard for software user documentation.
- ISO 216:2001 - Sizes of paper and board - Specification for A and B series
of trimmed sizes of writing paper and certain classes of printed materials.
- ISO 6357:1985 Recommendations for the presentation of spine titles.
- ISO/IEC 6592:2000, Information Technology, Guidelines for the documentation
of computer-based application systems.
- ISO/IEC 9127:1988 User documentation and cover information for consumer
software packages (see overview in the Communicator,
Spring 2004).
- ISO/IEC TR 9294: 2005 - Guidelines for the management of software documentation
(see overview on page 48 of the Communicator,
Spring 2005).
- ISO/IEC 15910:1999, Information technology - Software user documentation
process (based upon Australian/New Zealand standard AS/NZS 4258). See overview
in the Communicator, Summer 2004.
- ISO/IEC 18019 Software and systems engineering
- Guidelines for the design and preparation of user documentation for application
software (replaces BS 7649 and BS 7830). See overview in the Communicator,
Spring 2003.
- BS EN 80416 - Basic principles for graphical symbols for use on equipment
(4 part standard, parts 1, 2 and 3 have been published).
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