Method and practice of comparing indicators from standards

Abstract

Chinese standards and foreign standards differ in technical indicators and requirements, which result in the poor recognition of products that comply with Chinese standards. It is crucial to set up a universal method to compare standard indicators, so that the inconsistency between standards could be eliminated, and ultimately improve Chinese products competitiveness. This paper proposed a method for indicator comparison from standards. Based on Semantic Web technology, the method introduced fragmentation of standard documents in a manner of ‘product stylistic rule indicator’ triplet. The processed fragments were annotated by the knowledge-based organization and used for the following indicator comparison. The method and procedure were generalized to develop standard indicator comparison system. The system provided a great experience in representing technical indicators as well as the comparison of indicators from standards. Further practice of the system suggested that repeated standard development and conflicted indicators in Chinese standards are still common.