Re: [niso-sts] Standards Metadata - how to tag?

["G. Ken Holman g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx" <niso-sts-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good morning, Mary!

Your summary list appears, perhaps, to have come from some markup and 
ended up as a raw list. It is difficult to know what you are trying 
to say with each piece of information, but I'll take a stab at it.

For information associated with a standard, consider <std-xref> in 
the metadata:

https://www.niso-sts.org/TagLibrary/niso-sts-TL-1-2-html/element/std-xref.html
 "point to a related standard, for example, a standard that this 
standards document amends"


 <std-xref type="supersedes">
  <std-ref>EN ISO 13849-1:2006</std-ref>
 </std-xref>


That standard, itself, that is referenced inside the cross reference, 
can have information associated describing the nature of the 
reference:https://www.niso-sts.org/TagLibrary/niso-sts-TL-1-2-html/element/std-ref.html


<std-ref type="dated">ISO 2560:2009</std-ref>


So perhaps you need in your metadata:

 <std-xref type="supersedes">
   <std-ref>MIL-STD-xxx</std-ref>
   <release-date iso8601-date="yyyy-mm-dd">Dd Month yy</release-date>
 </std-xref>

You state that "INCH-POUND" is information associated with the 
standard itself, as opposed to a small piece inside the standard. You 
could use custom metadata that would need to be communicated to your 
user community as to where to find it with the meaning along the 
lines of "This document is an INCH-POUND specification and uses 
non-metric units.":

<custom-meta>
 <meta-name>unit-of-measure</meta-name>
 <meta-value>INCH-POUND</meta-value>
</custom-meta>

As for a "small piece inside the standard", there is no way I can 
find to express units of measure explicitly, unless, perhaps, you 
used something like:

 https://www.niso-sts.org/TagLibrary/niso-sts-TL-1-2-html/element/named-content.html
 <p>The torque required is <named-content content-type="unit-of-measure"
 specific-use="INCH-POUND">50</named-content> inch-pounds.</p>

I'm not sure what "w/CHANGE 1" might mean, sorry.

I hope this is helpful, but I'm just guessing at the semantics of 
what you want to express from just the values that you've itemized. 
It would help if, for each piece of information, you could take a 
moment to describe the semantic behind the syntax.

Good luck in your work with NISO-STS!

. . . . . . Ken

At 11/12/2024 01:39 +0000, Mary McRae mary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have the following information associated with a standard:
>
> INCH-POUND
> MIL-STD-xxxx
> w/CHANGE 1
> Dd Month yy
> SUPERSEDING
> MIL-STD-xxxx
> Dd Month yy
>
> The first is the measurement type used throughout the standard.
> Followed by the standard number, version/change information, and the 
> release date.
> And then the information for the prior version with SUPERSEDING.
>
> What would be the preferred way of encoding the previous version 
> information as well as the measurement information?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Mary McRae


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