Standards and specifications

1Description

Catalog metadata for technical standards from international and national bodies: designation, title, publisher, edition, status, dates, committee, ICS codes and the chain of documents each standard replaces or is replaced by. The lifecycle links make it easy to catch withdrawn editions still cited in contracts, drawings and supplier specifications. Engineering, procurement and compliance teams use it to keep specifications current, and ML teams use it to resolve standard references in technical text.

Subsets

• Technical standards metadata
• Engineering specifications
• Standards cross-references
• Obsolete, withdrawn and replaced standards

2Schema

3Sample records

Sample record 1

{
  "designation": "ISO 9001:2015",
  "title": "Quality management systems - Requirements",
  "publisher": "ISO (International Organization for Standardization)",
  "document_type": "International Standard",
  "status": "Withdrawn",
  "edition": 5,
  "publication_date": "2015-09",
  "pages": 29,
  "technical_committee": "ISO/TC 176/SC 2",
  "ics_codes": [
    "03.100.70",
    "03.120.10"
  ],
  "replaces": [
    "ISO 9001:2008",
    "ISO 9001:2008/Cor 1:2009"
  ],
  "amendments": [
    "ISO 9001:2015/Amd 1:2024"
  ],
  "replaced_by": "ISO 9001:2026",
  "lifecycle": [
    {
      "stage": "40.00 DIS registered",
      "date": "2014-05-09"
    },
    {
      "stage": "60.60 Published",
      "date": "2015-09-22"
    },
    {
      "stage": "90.93 Confirmed after systematic review",
      "date": "2021-05-20"
    },
    {
      "stage": "90.92 Decided to revise",
      "date": "2023-11-16"
    },
    {
      "stage": "95.99 Withdrawn",
      "date": "2026-09-16"
    }
  ],
  "catalog_url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/62085.html"
}

Sample record 2

{
  "designation": "ASTM A36/A36M-19",
  "title": "Standard Specification for Carbon Structural Steel",
  "publisher": "ASTM International",
  "document_type": "Standard specification",
  "status": "Active",
  "last_updated": "2019-07-04",
  "pages": 3,
  "technical_committee": "Subcommittee A01.02",
  "book_of_standards_volume": "01.04",
  "ics_codes": [
    "77.140.10"
  ],
  "doi": "10.1520/A0036_A0036M-19",
  "subject": "Carbon steel shapes, plates and bars of structural quality for bridges, buildings and general structural use",
  "replaces": [
    "ASTM A36/A36M-14"
  ],
  "earlier_versions": [
    "ASTM A36/A36M-14",
    "ASTM A36/A36M-12",
    "ASTM A36/A36M-08",
    "ASTM A36/A36M-05",
    "ASTM A36/A36M-04",
    "ASTM A36/A36M-03A",
    "ASTM A36/A36M-03",
    "ASTM A36/A36M-02",
    "ASTM A36/A36M-01",
    "ASTM A36/A36M-00A"
  ],
  "catalog_url": "https://store.astm.org/a0036_a0036m-19.html"
}

4Uses

• Flagging withdrawn or superseded standards in specifications and contracts
• Supplier qualification and certification tracking
• Resolving standard references in technical documents
• Building standards cross-reference tables
• Monitoring revisions that affect product compliance

6Access

The full Standards and specifications dataset (MLC-0502), records on request. Delivered as JSONL, CSV or Parquet under a commercial licence.

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