British Standards Institution

Sector: Governance & Resilience

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, provides the UK input to ISO/TC37 and the preparation, revision and amendment of British Standards for Language and terminology

Committee standards activity

In Progress (47)

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Reference	Standards description	Status ? The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD ISO/TS 25391	General guidelines for in-house translation departments Categories: Unclassified documents Drafting begins : 2025-07-04	Drafting
PD ISO/TS 25368	Certified translations for judicial settings and public authorities Categories: Unclassified documents Proposal begins :	Proposal
PD ISO/TR 24633-3	Management of terminology resources — Companion to TermBase eXchange (TBX) — Part 3: RDF representation for TBX core Categories: Unclassified documents Proposal begins :	Proposal
PD ISO/TR 24633-1	Management of terminology resources - Companion to TermBase eXchange (TBX) — Part 1: General Categories: Unclassified documents Drafting begins : 2025-04-30	Drafting
PD ISO/TR 24633	Building an RNG schema for TBX core Categories: Unclassified documents Drafting begins : 2025-03-20	Drafting
ISO/TC 37/SC 5 N 421, ISO/NP 5060	Translation services - Assessment of translation output - General guidance Categories: Information management \| Vocabularies \| Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation. \| Standardization. General rules \| Information sciences. \| Writing and transliteration Proposal begins : 2020-02-20	Proposal
ISO/TC 37/SC 4 N 1769, ISO/PWI 24620-5	Language resource management -- Controlled human communication (CHC) -- Part 5: Lexico-morphosyntactic principles and methodology for personal data recognition and protection in texts (DataPro) Categories: Information management \| Terminology. Principles and coordination \| Standardization. General rules Proposal begins : 2021-09-17	Proposal
ISO/TC 37/SC 4 N 1760, ISO/NP 24613-6	Language resource management -- Lexical markup framework (LMF) -- Part 6: Syntax and Semantics Categories: Information management \| Terminology. Principles and coordination \| Standardization. General rules Proposal begins : 2021-06-22	Proposal
ISO/TC 37/SC 4 N 1738, ISO/PWI 24617-10	Language resource management - Semantic annotation framework (SemAF) - Part 10: Visual information (VoxML) Categories: Information management \| Terminology. Principles and coordination \| Vocabularies \| Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation. \| Standardization. General rules \| Information sciences. Proposal begins : 2020-08-06	Proposal
ISO/TC 37/SC 4 N 1736, ISO/NP 24617-14	Language resource management - Semantic annotation framework (SemAF) - Part 14: Spatial semantics Categories: Information management \| Vocabularies \| Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation. \| Standardization. General rules \| ICT \| Information technology Proposal begins : 2020-07-22	Proposal

Published (87)

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Reference	Standards description	Status ? The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD ISO/TS 6253:2024	Requirements and recommendations for training programmes in community interpreting Categories: Education Published standard begins : 2024-09-11	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 24634:2024	Management of terminology resources. TermBase eXchange (TBX)-compliant representation of concept relations and subject fields Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination \| IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing Published standard begins : 2024-11-05	Published standard
PD ISO/TS 24617-5:2014	Language resource management. Semantic annotation framework (SemAF). Discourse structure (SemAF-DS) Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination Published standard begins : 2014-03-13	Published standard
PD ISO/TR 22134:2007	Practical guidelines for socioterminology Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination Published standard begins : 2007-05-16	Published standard
PD ISO/TR 21636-2:2023	Language coding. A framework for language varieties. Description of the framework Categories: Information sciences Published standard begins : 2023-04-04	Published standard
PD ISO/TR 20694:2018	A typology of language registers Categories: Information sciences Published standard begins : 2018-04-13	Published standard
BS ISO 860:2007	Terminology work. Harmonization of concepts and terms Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination Published standard begins : 2008-02-06	Published standard
BS ISO 704:2022	Terminology work. Principles and methods Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination Published standard begins : 2022-08-31	Published standard
BS ISO 639:2023	Code for individual languages and language groups. Part 4: General principles, rules and guidelines Categories: Information sciences Published standard begins : 2023-11-20	Published standard
BS ISO 5078:2025	Management of terminology resources. Terminology extraction Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination \| IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing Published standard begins : 2025-02-06	Published standard

Withdrawn (35)

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Reference	Standards description	Status ? The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD ISO/TS 24634:2021	Management of terminology resources. TBX-compliant representation of concept relations and subject fields Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination \| IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing Withdrawn begins : 2024-11-05	Withdrawn
PD ISO/TS 11669:2012	Translation projects. General guidance Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination Withdrawn begins : 2024-03-19	Withdrawn
PD ISO/TR 24156:2008	Guidelines for using UML notation in terminology work Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination Withdrawn begins : 2015-09-21	Withdrawn
PD ISO/PAS 24019:2020	Simultaneous interpreting delivery platforms. Requirements and recommendations Categories: Buildings. Public Withdrawn begins : 2022-10-27	Withdrawn
BS ISO 704:2009	Terminology work. Principles and methods Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination Withdrawn begins : 2022-08-31	Withdrawn
BS ISO 704:2000	Terminology work. Principles and methods Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination Withdrawn begins : 2010-02-01	Withdrawn
BS ISO 639-6:2009	Codes for the representation of names of languages. Alpha-4 code for comprehensive coverage of language variants Categories: Information sciences Withdrawn begins : 2023-06-15	Withdrawn
BS ISO 639-5:2008	Codes for the representation of names of languages. Alpha-3 code for language families and groups Categories: Information sciences Withdrawn begins : 2023-12-06	Withdrawn
BS ISO 639-4:2010	Codes for the representation of names of languages. General principles of coding of the representation of names of languages and related entities, and application guidelines Categories: Information sciences Withdrawn begins : 2023-12-06	Withdrawn
BS ISO 639-3:2007	Codes for the representation of names of languages. Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages Categories: Information sciences Withdrawn begins : 2023-12-06	Withdrawn

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Committee members

Nominating organizations

Association of Translation Companies
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Bangor University
Chartered Institute of Linguists
Committee Manager
Institute of Translation and Interpreting
Outgoing Chair
University of Surrey

Liaisons with other committees

Individual capacity - Codes for the representation of names of languages
Individual Capacity - Computer Assisted Translation Expert
Individual Capacity - Language Resource & Business Management
Individual Capacity - Language resource management
Individual Capacity - Principles & SBV
Individual Capacity -Terminology management
Liaison – ART/1
UK Expert - ISO/TC 37/SC 5/WG 1

BSI roles

Committee Chair

Standards Development

TS/1 - Language and terminology

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