Tracking ISO standard changes for laboratory methods

ISO catalogue pages show the current edition, publication date and review status. ISO open data offers the same kind of metadata in machine-readable form.

Read the catalogue page

For example, the ISO/IEC 17025 page lists Edition 3, published 2017-11, and states it was last reviewed and confirmed in 2023 [1]. A confirmation keeps the edition current; a revision creates a new edition.

Use open metadata

ISO publishes datasets describing deliverables, technical committees and ICS classes, released under a licence that requires attribution [2]. Metadata tells you that something changed, not what the new text says.

Action steps

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