When you have bazillions of standards, the ISBN is handy as a unique identifier (unique and/or primary key), as each version has different reference; otherwise no other significant use. For example, an excerpt from my database:
ISBN 9780580910234 BS EN 62368-1:2014 ISBN 9782832214053 IEC 62368-1 Edition 2.0 2014-02 ISBN 9782889106844 IEC 62368-1 Edition 1.0 2010-01 ISBN 97811554364159 CSA C22.2 NO. 60950-1B-07 Brian From: Chuck August-McDowell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 4:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [PSES] Organize my standards => ISBN 13 Digit code Greetings form Berkeley, Does using the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13 digit code work to organize your standard's collection? Thank you in advance for comments, Mr. Chuck McDowell Compliance Specialist Meyer Sound Laboratories Inc. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected]> David Heald <[email protected]> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
