SIST EN 61360-6:2017

Standard data element types with associated classification scheme for electric components - Part 6: IEC Common Data Dictionary (IEC CDD) quality guidelines (IEC 61360-6:2016)

This part of IEC 61360 provides guidance for the definition of concepts that are used to
describe classes and properties submitted for update of the content of IEC Common Data
Dictionary (IEC CDD). This includes
– a basic understanding of key concepts and procedures used within IEC CDD;
– a binding reference for quality control of IEC 61360 compliant dictionary content;
– guidance on documents where necessary in-depth knowledge can be acquired (see
Clause 2 and Annex D).
This part of IEC 61360 includes the following subjects:
– basic overview about fundamental concepts of IEC 61360;
– formulating definitions and other textual elements;
– overview of IEC maintenance procedure for IEC CDD;
– checklist for providing input to the IEC CDD content.

Genormte Datenelementtypen mit Klassifikationsschema für elektrische Betriebsmittel - Teil 6: Gemeinsames IEC-Datenbeschreibungsverzeichnis (IEC CDD): Qualitätsleitfaden (IEC 61360-6:2016)

Types normalisés d'élements de données avec plan de classification pour composants électriques - Partie 6: Dictionnaire de données communes de l'IEC (IEC CDD) - Lignes directrices pour la qualité (IEC 61360-6:2016)

L'IEC 61360-6:2016 donne des lignes directrices pour la définition des concepts utilisés pour la description des classes et des propriétés, soumise pour mise à jour du contenu du Dictionnaire des données communes de l'IEC (IEC CDD, Common Data Dictionary). Cela inclut:
- une compréhension de base des concepts clés et des procédures utilisés dans l'IEC CDD;
- une référence obligatoire pour le contrôle qualité des contenus de dictionnaire conformes à l'IEC 61360;
- des lignes directrices pour les documents dans lesquels une connaissance approfondie nécessaire peut être acquise.

Tipi standardnih podatkovnih elementov s pripadajočo klasifikacijsko shemo za električne sestavne dele - 6. del: Smernice o kakovosti Slovarja skupnih pojmov IEC (IEC CDD)

Ta del standarda IEC 61360 podaja smernice za opredelitev konceptov, ki se uporabljajo za opis razredov in lastnosti, predloženih za posodobitev vsebine skupnega podatkovnega slovarja IEC (IEC CDD). To vključuje:
– osnovno razumevanje ključnih konceptov in postopkov, ki se uporabljajo v skupnem podatkovnem slovarju IEC;
– zavezujoča referenca za nadzor kakovosti vsebine slovarja v skladu s standardom IEC 61360;
– smernice za uporabo dokumentov, v katerih je mogoče pridobiti potrebno poglobljeno znanje (glej točko 2 in dodatek D).
Ta del standarda IEC 61360 vključuje naslednje dele:
– osnovni pregled temeljnih konceptov standarda IEC 61360;
– oblikovanje definicij in drugih besedilnih elementov;
– pregled postopka vzdrževanja IEC za skupni podatkovni slovar IEC;
– kontrolni seznam za vnose v vsebino skupnega podatkovnega slovarja IEC.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 30-Mar-2017
• ICS: 01.040.29 - Electrical engineering (Vocabularies)
• ICS: 29.020 - Electrical engineering in general
• Technical Committee: EDO - Documentation and graphical symbols
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 01-Feb-2017
• Due Date: 08-Apr-2017
• Completion Date: 31-Mar-2017
• Ref Project: EN 61360-6:2017 - Standard data element types with associated classification scheme for electric components - Part 6: IEC Common Data Dictionary (IEC CDD) quality guidelines

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(IEC 61360-6:2016)
Types normalisés d'élements de données avec plan de classification pour composants
électriques - Partie 6: Dictionnaire de données communes de l'IEC (IEC CDD) - Lignes
directrices pour la qualité (IEC 61360-6:2016)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61360-6:2017
ICS:
01.040.29 Elektrotehnika (Slovarji) Electrical engineering
(Vocabularies)
29.020 Elektrotehnika na splošno Electrical engineering in
general
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2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 61360-6

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
January 2017
ICS 01.110; 25.040.40; 31.020

English Version
Standard data element types with associated classification
scheme for electric components - Part 6: IEC Common Data
Dictionary (IEC CDD) quality guidelines
(IEC 61360-6:2016)
Types normalisés d'élements de données avec plan de Genormte Datenelementtypen mit Klassifikationsschema für
classification pour composants électriques - elektrische Betriebsmittel - Teil 6: Gemeinsames IEC-
Partie 6: Dictionnaire de données communes de l'IEC Datenbeschreibungsverzeichnis (IEC CDD):
(IEC CDD) - Lignes directrices pour la qualité Qualitätsleitfaden
(IEC 61360-6:2016) (IEC 61360-6:2016)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2016-11-08. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation
under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.


European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
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© 2017 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
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EN 61360-6:2017
European foreword
The text of document 3D/279/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 61360-6, prepared by SC 3D "Product
properties and classes and their identification", of IEC/TC 3 " Information structures and elements,
identification and marking principles, documentation and graphical symbols" was submitted to the IEC-
CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN 61360-6:2017.
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at (dop) 2017-08-08
national level by publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2019-11-08
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with
the document have to be withdrawn

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such
patent rights.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61360-6:2016 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
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Annex ZA
(normative)

Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod),
the relevant EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is
available here: www.cenelec.eu.

Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 61360-1 -  Standard data elements types with EN 61360-1 -
associated classification scheme for
electric items -
Part 1: Definitions - Principles and
methods
IEC 61360-2 2012 Standard data element types with EN 61360-2 2013
associated classification scheme for
electric components -
Part 2: EXPRESS dictionary schema
IEC 62656-1 -  Standardized product ontology register EN 62656-1 -
and transfer by spreadsheets -
Part 1: Logical structure for data parcels
IEC/TS 62656-2 2013 Standardized product ontology register - -
and transfer by spreadsheets -
Part 2: Application guide for use with the
IEC common data dictionary (CDD)
ISO 704 2009 Terminology work - Principles and - -
methods

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 6
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references. 7
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 7
3.1 Terms and definitions . 7
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 9
4 Data structure fundamentals . 9
4.1 General . 9
4.2 Class . 10
4.3 Property . 11
4.4 Attribute . 11
4.5 Key attributes of IEC CDD entries . 13
4.5.1 Overview . 13
4.5.2 Definition . 14
4.5.3 Note . 15
4.5.4 Remark . 15
4.5.5 Overview on mandatory attributes . 15
5 Writing of definitional content . 16
5.1 Basic requirements . 16
5.2 Principles for definition writing . 16
5.3 Conciseness . 17
5.4 Principle of substitution . 17
5.5 Deficient definitions . 17
5.5.1 General . 17
5.5.2 Circular definitions . 18
5.5.3 Incomplete definitions . 18
5.5.4 Negative definitions . 19
5.6 Notes and examples . 19
6 Recommendations for textual information in dictionaries according to IEC 61360
series . 20
6.1 General . 20
6.2 Recommendations that emerge from the implementation of IEC CDD . 20
6.3 Languages . 20
6.4 Acceptable wording . 20
6.4.1 General . 20
6.4.2 Using “shall” and “shall not” . 20
6.4.3 Using “must” and “must not” . 21
6.4.4 Using “should” and “should not” . 21
6.4.5 Use of “may” and “need not” . 21
6.4.6 Use of “can” and “cannot” . 21
6.4.7 Use of “i.e.”, “e.g.”, and “etc.” . 22
6.4.8 Use of abbreviations . 22
6.5 Quotations from standards or documented sources . 22
6.6 Use of quotation marks. 23
6.7 Spelling . 23

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6.8 Hyphenation . 24
6.9 Words to avoid . 24
6.10 Frequently used words . 24
7 Names. 25
7.1 General . 25
7.2 Preferred name . 25
7.3 Synonymous name . 25
7.4 Names shall not infer range values . 25
7.5 Names shall not imply product packaging . 25
8 Units of measure . 26
9 Import of data into IEC CDD . 26
10 Quality of content . 26
11 Contributing content and copyright issues . 26
Annex A (informative) Use of tools to check consistency of data . 29
Annex B (normative) Scope and field of application of proposed data . 30
Annex C (normative) Checklist . 31
C.1 General . 31
C.2 Generic issues . 31
C.3 Extension of existing classes by adding properties . 31
C.4 Setting up new classes with associated properties . 32
Annex D (informative) IEC Maintenance procedure for IEC standards in database
format . 33
Annex E (informative) Nature of definitions and terminological principles . 35
Annex F (informative) Conventions for writing definitions . 36
F.1 General . 36
F.2 ISO/IEC 11179-4 . 36
F.2.1 Requirements . 36
F.2.2 Recommendations . 36
F.3 ISO 704 . 36
F.4 Additional conventions . 37
Bibliography . 38

Figure 1 – Characterization tree for amplifiers . 10
Figure 2 – Properties of a class . 11
Figure 3 – Attributes of a class . 12
Figure 4 – Attributes of a property . 13
Figure 5 – Input by an authorized person or body . 27
Figure 6 – Contributing content already contained in published standards . 28
Figure 7 – Database maintenance . 28
Figure D.1 – The normal database procedure (see ISO/IEC Directives
Supplement:2016, Annex SL) . 33
Figure D.2 – The extended database procedure (see ISO/IEC Directives
Supplement:2016, Annex SL) . 34
Figure D.3 – Process and related documentation . 34

Table 1 – Mandatory attributes of selected IEC CDD objects and their sources . 15

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FOREWORD
1) The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a worldwide organization for standardization comprising
all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of IEC is to promote
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International Standard IEC 61360-6 has been prepared by subcommittee 3D: Product
properties and classes and their identification, of IEC technical committee 3: Information
structures and elements, identification and marking principles, documentation and graphical
symbols.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
3D/279/FDIS 3D/283/RVD

Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be found in the report on
voting indicated in the above table.
This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.

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A list of all parts in the IEC 61360 series, published under the general title Standard data
element types with associated classification scheme for electric components, can be found on
the IEC website.
The committee has decided that the contents of this publication will remain unchanged until
the stability date indicated on the IEC website under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data
related to the specific publication. At this date, the publication will be
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INTRODUCTION
The use of product data is an essential part of electronic business. Product selection,
business transactions, maintenance procedures, etc., rely on the availability of data about
products and services. To ensure a common understanding and a general treatment of
product data, classification and dictionary systems are used to define their essential technical
parameters or to categorize products.
The standards of the series IEC 61360 specify rules for structure and content of collections of
product properties and its classification structures. In most cases the classes and properties
contained in such collections are intuitively understandable. But, unfortunately, creating the
information objects and their textual content, such as definitions, has proved to be a
demanding task with potential pitfalls and problems. For avoiding such difficulties explanatory
material and sections of other standards are collected in this part of IEC 61360 providing the
necessary knowledge for successfully creating classes and properties. Thus, IEC 61360-6
provides guidance for specifying the information content of IEC 61360 classes and properties.
This part of IEC 61360 is intended for domain specialists who are technical experts in their
specific technical domain. The domain specialists do not necessarily have an in-depth
knowledge of IEC 61360-1 or IEC 61360-2.

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Part 6: IEC Common Data Dictionary (IEC CDD) quality guidelines



1 Scope
This part of IEC 61360 provides guidance for the definition of concepts that are used to
describe classes and properties submitted for update of the content of IEC Common Data
Dictionary (IEC CDD). This includes
– a basic understanding of key concepts and procedures used within IEC CDD;
– a binding reference for quality control of IEC 61360 compliant dictionary content;
– guidance on documents where necessary in-depth knowledge can be acquired (see
Clause 2 and Annex D).
This part of IEC 61360 includes the following subjects:
– basic overview about fundamental concepts of IEC 61360;
– formulating definitions and other textual elements;
– overview of IEC maintenance procedure for IEC CDD;
– checklist for providing input to the IEC CDD content.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and
are indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any
amendments) applies.
IEC 61360-1, Standard data element types with associated classification scheme for electric
components – Part 1: Definitions – Principles and methods
IEC 61360-2:2012, Standard data element types with associated classification scheme for
electric components – Part 2: EXPRESS dictionary schema
IEC 62656-1, Standardized product ontology register and transfer by spreadsheets – Part 1:
Logical structure for data parcels
IEC TS 62656-2:2013, Standardized product ontology register and transfer by spreadsheets –
Part 2: Application guide for use with the IEC common data dictionary (CDD)
ISO 704:2009, Terminology work – Principles and methods
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
3.1 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.

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ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following
addresses:
• IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/
• ISO Online browsing platform: available at http://www.iso.org/obp
3.1.1
attribute
data element for the computer-sensible description of a property, a relation or a class
EXAMPLE Creation date of a product characterization class object in a computer system.
[SOURCE: ISO/IEC Guide 77-2:2008, 2.2, modified – The note has been deleted and the
example replaced.]
3.1.2
characteristic
distinguishing feature
Note 1 to entry: A characteristic can be inherent or assigned.
Note 2 to entry: A characteristic can be qualitative or quantitative.
[SOURCE: ISO 22274:2013, 3.3, modified – The notes 3 and 4 and the example have been
deleted.]
3.1.3
class
abstraction of a set of similar products
EXAMPLE The set of products used by a particular enterprise and the set of all ISO-standardized products are
two examples of contexts. In these two contexts (the particular enterprise and ISO), the set of products that are
considered as members of the single ball bearing class can be different, in particular because employees of each
enterprise ignore a number of existing single ball bearing products.
Note 1 to entry: A product that complies with the abstraction defined by a class is called a class member.
Note 2 to entry: A class is an intentional concept that can take different extensional meanings in different
contexts.
Note 3 to entry: Classes are structured by class inclusion relationships.
Note 4 to entry: A class of products is a general concept as defined in ISO 1087-1. Thus, it is advisable that the
rules defined in ISO 704 be used for defining the designation and definition attributes of classes of products.
Note 5 to entry: In the context of the ISO 13584 series, a class is either a characterization class, associated with
properties and usable for characterizing products, or a categorization class, not associated with properties and not
usable for characterizing products.
[SOURCE: IEC 61360-2:2012, 3.6]
3.1.4
concept
unit of knowledge created by a unique combination of characteristics
[SOURCE: ISO 22274:2013, 3.7]
3.1.5
definition
representation of a concept by a descriptive statement which serves to differentiate it from
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3.1.6
designation
representation of a concept by a sign which denotes it
3.1.7
extensi
...