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

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In Progress (49)

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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 : 2025-04-03	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 Proposal begins :	Proposal
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 (85)

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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 5060:2024	Translation services. Evaluation of translation output. General guidance Categories: Terminology. Principles and coordination Published standard begins : 2024-02-16	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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TS/1 - Language and terminology

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