EN ISO 19160-4:2017

Addressing - Part 4: International postal address components and template language (ISO 19160-4:2017)

ISO 19160-4:2017 defines key terms for postal addressing, postal address components and constraints on their use.
Specifically, ISO 19160-4:2017 defines postal address components organized into three hierarchical levels:
-      elements, such as organization name or postcode, which have well-defined conceptual meaning and are not themselves made up of subordinate components, though they may be sub-divided for technical purposes;
-      constructs, such as organization identification, which group elements into units form a logical portion of a postal address;
-      segments, such as addressee specification, which group-related postal address constructs and/or postal address elements into units with a specific defined function.
ISO 19160-4:2017 also specifies a mechanism for creation of sub-elements, which correspond to either sub-divisions of element content, such as door type or door indicator or to multiple occurrences and locations of elements in an address, such as levels of administrative regions.
ISO 19160-4:2017 does not specify the length of any component nor the value range of any component.
Moreover, ISO 19160-4:2017 defines the codes to identify elements and sub-elements.
Further, ISO 19160-4:2017 specifies postal address rendering rules. This includes identification and ordering of output lines in a rendered address, conditions for selection of candidate lines, the order and concatenation of postal address components, required and optional components, parameters to contextualize address for rendering and the formatting of the components, subject to constraints on the space available for that task. Postal address rendering rules are represented in ISO 19160-4:2017 as a postal address template.
Finally, ISO 19160-4:2017 specifies language suitable for computer processing to formally express postal address templates.

Adressierung - Teil 4: Bestandteile internationaler postalischer Anschriften und Template-Sprachen (ISO 19160-4:2017)

Dieser Teil der ISO 19160 bestimmt die Schlüsselbegriffe für postalische Anschriften, Bestandteile postalischer Anschriften und Einschränkungen ihrer Nutzung.
Besonders dieser Teil der ISO 19160 bestimmt die Bestandteile der postalischen Anschriften, die in drei hierarchischen Ebenen organisiert sind:
- Elemente, wie der Name der Organisation oder die Postleitzahl, die eine eindeutige begriffliche Bedeutung haben und die selbst nicht aus untergeordneten Elementen zusammengesetzt worden sind, obwohl sie zu technischen Zwecken unterteilt werden können;
- Aufbauten, wie die Identifizierung einer Organisation, die Elemente in Einheiten zusammenfassen, die einen logischen Teil einer postalischen Anschrift bilden;
- Segmente, wie Empfängerangabe, die die zugehörigen Aufbauten und/oder Bestandteile der posta-lischen Adressen in Einheiten mit einer genau festgelegten Funktion zusammenfassen.
Dieser Teil von ISO 19160 legt auch einen Mechanismus für die Erstellung von Elementbestandteilen fest, die entweder den Unterabteilungen von Elementinhalt, wie Tür-Typ oder Türangabe, entspricht oder um Vorkommen und Örtlichkeiten von Elementen in Adressen, wie Ebenen der administrativen Bereiche zu vervielfachen.
Dieser Teil der ISO 19160 legt nicht die Länge und den Wertebereich von Bestandteilen fest.
Außerdem legt dieser Teil der ISO 19160 die Codes fest, um Elemente und Elementbestandteile zu identifizieren.
Weiter legt dieser Teil der ISO 19160 die Ausgabevorschriften postalischer Anschriften fest. Dies schließt die Identifizierung und Anordnung von Ausgabezeilen in einer ausgegebenen Adresse, die Bedingungen zur Auswahl von Kandidatenzeilen, die Reihenfolge und Verknüpfung von Elementen postalischer Adressen, Pflicht- und optionale Elemente, Parameter, um die Adresse zur Ausgabe in Kontext zu setzen, und die Formatierung der Elemente je nach den Beschränkungen des hierzu verfügbaren Platzes fest. Die Vorschriften zur Ausgabe von postalischen Anschriften werden als Vorlage für postalische Anschriften in diesem Teil der ISO 19160 dargestellt.
Schließlich legt dieser Teil von ISO 19160 die passende Sprache für Computerprozesse fest, um postalische Anschriftentemplates formell auszudrücken.

Adressage - Partie 4: Composants et langages des modèles d'adresses postales internationales (ISO 19160-4:2017)

ISO 19160-4:2017 définit les termes clés relatifs à l'adressage postal, aux composants d'adresse postale et aux contraintes d'utilisation associées.
ISO 19160-4:2017 décrit plus particulièrement les composants d'adresse postale en les organisant en trois niveaux hiérarchiques:
-      les éléments, comme le nom de l'organisme ou le code postal, qui ont un sens conceptuel bien défini et qui ne sont pas eux-mêmes constitués de composants subordonnés, bien qu'ils puissent être subdivisés pour des raisons techniques;
-      les constructions, comme l'identification de l'organisme, qui regroupent des éléments en unités pour former une portion logique d'une adresse postale;
-      les segments, comme la spécification du destinataire, qui regroupent des constructions et/ou des éléments d'adresse postale connexes en unités ayant une fonction spécifique définie.
ISO 19160-4:2017 définit également un mécanisme de création de sous-éléments qui correspondent à des subdivisions du contenu d'un élément, comme le type de porte ou l'indicateur de porte, ou à plusieurs occurrences et emplacements d'un élément dans une adresse, comme les niveaux des régions administratives.
ISO 19160-4:2017 ne spécifie la longueur ni la plage de valeurs d'aucun des composants.
En outre, le présent document définit les codes permettant d'identifier les éléments et les sous-éléments.
Par ailleurs, il spécifie les règles de rendu des adresses postales. Ces règles concernent l'identification et le classement des lignes de sortie dans une adresse présentée, les conditions de sélection des lignes candidates, l'ordre et la concaténation des composants d'adresse postale, les composants obligatoires et facultatifs, les paramètres permettant de contextualiser une adresse en vue de sa présentation et le formatage des composants, selon les contraintes de l'espace disponible pour cette tâche. Le présent document exprime les règles de rendu des adresses postales sous la forme d'un modèle d'adresse postale.
Enfin, le présent document définit un langage adapté au traitement informatique permettant d'exprimer de manière formelle les modèles d'adresses postales.

Naslavljanje - 4. del: Sestavni deli in jezikovne predloge mednarodnega poštnega naslova (ISO 19160-4:2017)

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 12-Dec-2017
• Withdrawal Date: 18-Apr-2023
• ICS: 03.240 - Postal services
• ICS: 35.240.70 - IT applications in science
• Technical Committee: CEN/TC 331 - Postal services
• Drafting Committee: CEN/TC 331/WG 3 - Automatic identification of items - Addresses
• Directive: 97/67/EC - Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 on common rules for the development of the internal market of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service
• Mandate: M/428 - Standardisation Mandate addressed to CEN in the field of Postal services and equipment
• Ref Project: SIST EN ISO 19160-4:2018 - Addressing - Part 4: International postal address components and template languages (ISO 19160-4:2017)

Relations

• Replaces: EN 14142-1:2011 - Postal services - Address databases - Part 1: Components of postal addresses
• Effective Date: 20-Dec-2017
• Replaced By: EN ISO 19160-4:2023 - Addressing - Part 4: International postal address components and template language (ISO 19160-4:2023)
• Effective Date: 18-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-marec-2018
1DGRPHãþD
SIST EN 14142-1:2011
Naslavljanje - 4. del: Sestavni deli in jezikovne predloge mednarodnega poštnega
naslova (ISO 19160-4:2017)
Addressing - Part 4: International postal address components and template languages
(ISO 19160-4:2017)
Postalische Dienstleistungen - Adressdatenbanken - Teil 1: Bestandteile der
postalischen Anschrift (ISO 19160-4:2017)
Adressage - Partie 4: Composants et langages des modèles d`adresses postales
internationales (ISO 19160-4:2017)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN ISO 19160-4:2017
ICS:
03.240 Poštne storitve Postal services
35.240.69 Uporabniške rešitve IT pri IT applications in postal
poštnih storitvah services
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EN ISO 19160-4
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
December 2017
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 35.240.70 Supersedes EN 14142-1:2011
English Version
Addressing - Part 4: International postal address
components and template language (ISO 19160-4:2017)
Adressage - Partie 4: Composants et langages des Adressierung - Teil 4: Bestandteile internationaler
modèles d'adresses postales internationales (ISO postalischer Anschriften und Template-Sprachen (ISO
19160-4:2017) 19160-4:2017)
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European foreword . 3
European foreword
This document (EN ISO 19160-4:2017) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 211
“Geographic information/Geomatics” in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 331 “Postal
services” the secretariat of which is held by NEN.
This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
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This document supersedes EN 14142-1:2011.
This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and the
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Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.
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The text of ISO 19160-4:2017 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 19160-4:2017 without any
modification.
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Addressing —
Part 4:
International postal address
components and template language
Adressage —
Partie 4: Composants et langages des modèles d'adresses postales
internationales
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ISO 19160-4:2017(E)
Contents Page
Foreword .v
Introduction .vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 2
4 Abbreviated terms . 6
5 Conformance . 6
5.1 Composition . 6
5.2 U-code . 6
5.3 Rendering of postal address . 6
5.4 PATDL template . 6
6 Postal address components . 7
6.1 General . 7
6.2 Postal address segments . 9
6.3 Postal address constructs .10
6.4 Postal address elements .10
6.5 Postal address sub-elements .16
6.6 Requirement for composition .19
7 Element and sub-element codes .19
7.1 General .19
7.2 Requirement for a U-code .19
8 Postal address rendering .20
8.1 General .20
8.2 Rendering parameters .22
8.3 Rendition instructions .22
8.3.1 General.22
8.3.2 Concatenation.23
8.3.3 Abbreviation .23
8.3.4 Punctuation .23
8.4 Requirements for rendering of postal address .23
8.5 Requirement for domain of postal address template .24
9 Postal address template description language (PATDL) .24
9.1 General .24
9.2 PATDL as an XML Schema .24
9.2.1 General.24
9.2.2 Requirement for encoding of rendering rules .25
9.2.3 Requirement for data populating PATDL elements .25
9.3 PATDL elements .25
9.3.1 General.25
9.3.2 templateIdentifier .26
9.3.3 userPreferences .27
9.3.4 triggerConditions .27
9.3.5 lineData .29
9.3.6 combineData.31
Annex A (normative) Abstract test suites .
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