What does the ISO Companion know?

What does the ISO Companion know?

The ISO companion uses a technique called retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to incorporate information from chosen ISO-sources and turn into an expert in ISO-specific rules. Concretely, the Companion sources its information from these documents:

• ISO/IEC Directives Part 1 and Consolidated ISO Supplement
• ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2, Principles and rules for the structure and drafting of ISO and IEC documents
• ISO/IEC Guide 17:2016, Guide for writing standards taking into account the needs of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
• ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004 Standardization and related activities — General vocabulary
• ISO/IEC 17000:2020, Conformity assessment — Vocabulary and general principles
• ISO helpdesk knowledge base
• ISO website
• ISO house style guide
• TMB documents
  • TMB communiqué
  • TMB resolutions
  • TMB meeting minutes
• ISO Policy and Governance information, including:
  • ISO Statutes
  • ISO Rules of Procedure
  • ISO Code of Ethics and Conduct
  • (Most) other ISO Policy governance documents. Note that this is not yet the complete list, but covers most day to day enquiries.
• My ISO job guide
• Guidance on use of artificial intelligence (AI) for ISO committees
• Guidance documents related to Standards Development, including Guidance on New Work and the Getting Started toolkits.
• Normative references to standards in the Directives Part 2 (especially useful for editors in OSD).

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Whenever the ISO Companion refers to existing authoritative sources, links to these sources will be presented

1. in context, after a specific sentence referencing a document or page
2. recapitulation, at the end of the answer

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To access an in-context citation:

1. mouse over the individual badge number. The name of the source document/page with an overview of the content will appear
2. click on the source title to open the original document/page in a new tab.

To access the citation recap:

1. Click the Sources (x) button. The list of citations used in the current answer will appear.
2. Click the citation section anyway. The source page/document will open in a new tab.