The system is delivered using 67 Bricks Standards Document Review System software. This approach allowed NEN to launch a fully functional and proven draft review system within a month. The software is specifically designed for standards bodies and out of the box supports CEN, ISO and IEC/CENELEC content templates. NEN used the software’s language support capabilities to launch the system in Dutch.
This project has enabled NEN to engage and meet with public interest around new standard development.

Enhancements include:
- improved look and feel
- rich text editors for commenting on draft standards
- tracking of comments provided on the users “My Profile” page
- an “Alert a colleague” feature to attract further interested parties
- further business related enhancements
- Support for new templates (including CEN and ISO document templates)

67 Bricks previously announced the development and release of the online “Draft for Public Comment” review system at BSI, a portal for members of the public to view and comment on draft standards. Standards documents are automatically processed and transformed into content displayed in user friendly web pages.

This project was recognised as a significant business success by BSI:
“As a result of the new system built by 67 Bricks, we have seen the number of comments on draft standards increase substantially…The engagement with new entrants to our comment process has been a greater success than we could have hoped for.”
Shirley Bailey-Wood, Operations Director, BSI British Standards.

Working with BSI, 67 Bricks were commissioned to develop the Standards proposal review system. This system enables the public to comment on proposals for new standards, it also allows them to suggest new areas for standardisation. This project succeeds in further engaging the public in the development of standards.

The system enables the public to increase its awareness of the work that BSI is involved in and to become more actively engaged in the standardization process. Users can search and browse information by category or committee to find out about proposed standards, standards in development, standards available for comment and published standards. The release of this product ties in with the success of both the Standard Proposal systems and Standard Document Review systems developed for BSI.

Inigo said “Allowing annotation of articles with comments and assertions is the pragmatic first step towards a full Semantic Publishing approach. It brings together the community-driven strengths of Web 2.0 and the Web 3.0 advantages of making data machine-readable, to make research articles more valuable to scientists.” Web 3.0, also known as the “Semantic Web”, is a set of standards for adding machine-readable descriptions to web pages, so it is easier to find, connect and visualize information from them. For scientific articles, this helps researchers to find relevant articles and to build on each others work more effectively.

67 Bricks Client Services Director Sam Herbert said “We are delighted to have our innovative work in article publishing recognized by Elsevier and the panel of judges. We are interested in talking to publishers who would like to make this prototype commercially available.”

The Elsevier Article 2.0 website is at http://article20.elsevier.com/.

67 Bricks have just released a case study on their successful implementation of a new Draft Review System at BSI, to increase public engagement in the draft review process, increase awareness of the availability of the drafts and improve handling efficiencies.

Read the case study.

CSW are a leading supplier of electronic records management to the Healthcare sector. When healthcare professionals are entering data or selecting options they need to use predefined terms for consistency. These terms are already defined within existing hierarchical terminologies. The Terminology Service will ensure that data entered or selected will match these pre-defined terms. Case Notes search will also be improved as it will utilise the Terminology Service to match related terms as well as direct keyword matches.

In different areas of healthcare and in different geographic regions distinct and separate terminologies are used. The Terminology Service will support this by allowing administrators to load local terminologies.

Dave Nurse, Technical Director at CSW, said: “We are continually looking for ways to improve our products. We needed a supplier to step in quickly to deliver a solution that would meet our clients’ needs. We felt 67 Bricks would be able to do this.”

“67 Bricks were engaged to do this work because of their experience in developing Healthcare software, and the technologies involved.”

Inigo will be the UK’s technical expert at the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva later this month, which is the next stage in the process for OOXML to become an ISO Standard.