ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1480 Abstract Requirement for FDIS Ballots and/or Publication ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3382 TITLE: Abstract Requirement for FDIS Ballots and/or Publication DATE ASSIGNED: 2002-03-27 SOURCE: ITTF BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other document (Open) PROJECT NUMBER: N/A STATUS: For information and implementation by SC 22 project editors on all future projects. The template form is located at http://www.iso.org/ittf under "Procedures/Abstracts". It can also be sent via e-mail by the SC 22 Secretariat per request. This document is located at: http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/open/n3382.pdf ACTION IDENTIFIER: ACT DUE DATE: DISTRIBUTION: PDF CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: Open Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat Matt Deane ANSI 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4992 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: mdeane@ansi.org ..................................................................... Text version of http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/open/n3382.pdf, excluding annexes. Abstracts for JTC 1 and TC 184 standards - Specification 1. Scope This specification provides rules for the preparation by TC/SC secretariats of abstracts of standards for provision to the ISO Central Secretariat. In this context, standards includes International Standards, Technical Specifications, Publicly Available Specifications, Technical Reports, Guides, Technology Trends Assessments and Industry Workshop Agreements. It does not include Technical Corrigenda or Amendments, except in the case where the amendment alters the scope of the mother document. 2. Creation and end use of abstracts Abstracts for standards are prepared either in-house by the ISOCS editorial service or, in the case of most JTC 1 and TC 184 documents, by the TC/SC secretariat. Abstracts prepared by the TC/SC secretariat shall be submitted to ISOCS either: as an HTML file; or in word-processor format; or in the form of a plain text file, if neither of the above formats is feasible. See clause 4 for requirements related to these formats. The abstracts will be checked by the ISOCS editorial service, and those supplied in a word- processor or plain text format will in addition be converted to HTML. On publication of the standard, the HTML file of the abstract will be available through the ISO Online catalogue. 3. Drafting and content 3.1 Drafting An abstract shall be drafted such that it: enables readers to identify the basic content of a standard quickly and accurately; is concise as possible but not cryptic or obscure; respects the same editorial rules as those specified for the Scope in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2 (as far as possible, the Scope of the document shall be drafted so that it may be used directly as the abstract, however the abstract layout and presentation need not conform to those used in the Scope of the corresponding standard); contains a maximum of approximately 500 words; contains only the permissible characters specified in annex A; has layout and presentation which are as simple as possible; includes information on different media versions of the standard having different content (e.g. a CD-ROM version has an added-value component), if appropriate. 3.2 Content An abstract may contain: references to the document itself, in the form of the document reference number, excluding the language in parentheses (e.g. use the forms "ISO 123:1999" and "ISO 234-6:2001" instead of "This International Standard" and "this part of ISO 234" etc.); titled and untitled subclauses; ordered and unordered lists to several levels (but avoid going down to more than level 2 in an abstract); cross-references to other documents; notes in the text. An abstract shall not contain: administrative information concerning the TC, SC or WG. figures or any other type of graphic (e.g. graphical symbols, photographs, logos, etc.); tables or any other tabular material; mathematical or chemical formulae or equations; footnotes; cross-references to other elements within the document itself (e.g. clauses, figures, tables, bibliography); information normally presented in forewords and introductions; information on the number of pages and the price of the standard. 4. Electronic format requirements The electronic format shall conform to the requirements given in the following table. Format Requirements HTML File shall be conformant with the DTD specified in annex B Word processor File shall be prepared using the Abstract(2000).dot template available at: http://www.iso.org/ittf (under "Procedures/Abstracts") a Text file If there are any formatting requirements for the abstract, supply a reference copy in the form of a PDF file. a For guidance on using the template see the "User's guide for the Abstract(2000) template". 5. Related documents ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2, Rules for the structure and drafting of International Standards (available at http://www.iso.org/sdis/directives) Template: Abstract(2000).dot and User's guide (available at http://www.iso.org/ittf, under "Procedures/Abstracts") Example abstracts (available at http://www.iso.org/ittf, under "Procedures/Abstracts")