What is BS EN 62023 – Technical information and documentation about?
BS EN 62023 is a European standard that discusses the structuring of technical information and documentation. Document structures help you organize complex information (documents) by creating information units.
BS EN 62023 provides rules for applying a method of structuring technical information and documentation by using the main document (leading document) for the clustering of the information for each object.
Who is BS EN 62023 – Technical information and documentation for?
BS EN 62023 on the structuring of technical information and documentation applies to:
- Companies dealing with the document structuring
Why should you use BS EN 62023 – Technical information and documentation?
The document is a fixed and structured amount of information that can be managed and interchanged as a unit between users and systems.
BS EN 62023 provides principles of structuring of systems, installations and products in which the design, manufacture, operate and maintain systems, installations or products efficiently, these are usually divided into parts or objects. The establishing of objects and the organization of the relations among them is called structuring, and the result is a structure.
Document structure in BS EN 62023 describes a document part as a sub-information-object that has an existence of its own and is characterized in that it:
- Has a coherent form of presentation
- Deals with a specific subject
- Presents a specific sub-object
- Forms a physical (layout) block, etc.