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Standards Artefacts

Source version 1.2.0. Draft for discussion and validation.

7.1 GS1 Standards Artefact Semantic Publication Profile

Purpose: Publish standards and standards components as authoritative, versioned, addressable and semantically linked digital artefacts.

Applicable outputs:

  • General Specifications clauses and tables;
  • EDI message artefacts;
  • EPCIS and CBV standards;
  • TDS/TDT syntax structures and rules;
  • regulatory standards packages;
  • implementation guidelines;
  • normative examples and conformance requirements.

Required capabilities:

  • document, chapter, clause, table, figure, requirement and example identifiers;
  • normative versus informative classification;
  • explicit applicability and dependency relationships;
  • links to referenced identifiers, data elements, schemas and code lists;
  • machine-readable requirement statements;
  • version and effective-date semantics;
  • source-preserving human representation;
  • conformance rules and test cases;
  • change impact metadata.

Example: General Specifications section 4.13 may be published as a package containing structured table data, links to Application Identifier concepts, JSON and JSON-LD distributions, a Markdown/HTML rendering, provenance to the source edition, a validation schema, and relationships to superseded versions.