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Establish, implement, and maintain linguistic symbols.


CONTROL ID
16239
CONTROL TYPE
Establish/Maintain Documentation
CLASSIFICATION
Preventive

SUPPORTING AND SUPPORTED CONTROLS



This Control directly supports the implied Control(s):
  • Establish and maintain terminological entries and their definitions., CC ID: 13318

There are no implementation support Controls.


SELECTED AUTHORITY DOCUMENTS COMPLIED WITH



  • simple and easy to recognize and, if possible, self-explanatory; (7.5 ¶ 2 Bullet 1, ISO 704:2022 Terminology work — Principles and methods, 4)
  • unambiguous; (7.5 ¶ 2 Bullet 3, ISO 704:2022 Terminology work — Principles and methods, 4)
  • If possible, symbols should bear some visual resemblance to the concept that they represent. In some cases, however, the visual resemblance of the symbol to the concept is less pronounced or completely lost. The concept represented can be no longer directly recognizable and can be supported only by … (7.5 ¶ 3, ISO 704:2022 Terminology work — Principles and methods, 4)
  • monosemic in a specific domain or subject (see 7.7.1); (7.5 ¶ 2 Bullet 2, ISO 704:2022 Terminology work — Principles and methods, 4)
  • consistent and appropriate, i.e. designed to permit coordination with and differentiation from other symbols. (7.5 ¶ 2 Bullet 5, ISO 704:2022 Terminology work — Principles and methods, 4)
  • easy and economical to reproduce; (7.5 ¶ 2 Bullet 4, ISO 704:2022 Terminology work — Principles and methods, 4)
  • Characters that replace words or parts of words, such as symbols that designate mathematical operations or currencies, shall be considered symbols (see Example 3 below). (7.5 ¶ 5, ISO 704:2022 Terminology work — Principles and methods, 4)
  • Alphanumeric codes made up of combinations of letters, numbers or both shall be considered symbols, if they do not represent words in a natural language or abbreviations (see Example 5 below and B.2.4). (7.5 ¶ 7, ISO 704:2022 Terminology work — Principles and methods, 4)