Getting Started Guide for Officers

Committee and WG officers as well as Project Leaders are responsible to drive the development of the project online. It is important that they have a full understanding on how the Online Standards Development is integrated with the ISO IT applications and understand the online document life-cycle.

The articles below are the list of essential information that Officers and Project Leaders should read before starting the Online Standards Development journey.

General information about Online Standards Development

• What is Online Standards Development
  • Preliminary stage
  • Proposal stage
  • Preparatory stage
  • Committee stage
• Access the Online Document
• OSD Permissions
• Setting up a Project Team

Getting started to draft online

• Navigation in online document
• Locking-unlocking of clause
• Automatic numbering
• Export document in Word and HTML

Drafting in an online document

• Manage clauses
• Manage numbered paragraph
• Manage Terms & Definitions
• Add, modify & delete references in the normative and bibliography clauses

Specific how-to articles on drafting in an online document are available here: Drafting in an online document

Validate the quality of your document

• Spell checker
• Content Quality checker accordingly to ISO/IEC Directives Part 2 and Style Guide
• Validate the structure of your document (available soon)

Resolve comments in an online document

• Articles relevant to pre-work comments:
  • Manage topics to group comments
  • Manage tags for comments
  • Manage comments dashboard
• Resolve comments