Customer stories

GSO is the regional standardization organisation for the Gulf States.  They have a catalogue of about 24,000 standards and technical regulations.  They adopt around 80% of these from international organisations and develop the other 20% within the region.

GSO use Réalta to publish their regional standards and adoptions.  And they offer their members a service to publish their national standards and adoptions.  The Bahrain Standards Metrology Directorate and the Omani Directorate General for Standards and Metrology are the first to take advantage of this.

GSO publish full standards and previews from XML in PDF and HTML formats.  In their webstores, previews are generated on-demand if they are not available already.

“Réalta’s publishing solution has helped us a lot in automating our publishing process specially for cover pages and forwards for all our standards, and we are also using it to publish the complete file for international standards adopted without any modification to achieve the reprint requirements to be exempted from any royalty fees.

Automating this process save us a lot of manual work, eliminates plenty errors and forces a very important consistency between our standards metadata database and our standards files.  The full benefits of this solution will be realized once we start authoring our standards in XML and are able to completely automate the publishing process.

Réalta is really an important strategic partner for us in this mission, they really helped us a lot in integrating their solution with our systems and responded positively to our extra integration requirements.”

Eng.Yusuf A. Aaji, Head of IT Solutions

Standards Digital provides digital services to national standards bodies and standards development organizations.

They offer a collaborative XML authoring environment enabling committee authors and editors to create content in NISO STS XML using Fonto.  They use Réalta’s Committee Work solution to publish PDF’s that closely resemble the product that will eventually be released.

Standards Norway use this solution to add semantic information about requirements to a set of standards for the oil industry.  Réalta creates PDFs showing details of the semantic mark-up and these are used to verify the mark up with technical experts.  Ultimately, accurate requirements are automatically extracted from the standard and fed to other applications.  You can read more about this and other ways that Réalta can help editors create accessible, high-quality XML in Ken Holman’s paper for the JATS-CON 2020 event.

Standards Norway also use Réalta for the final publishing of national standards for the construction and oil industries.

NSAI is Ireland’s official standards body.  It is a member of ISO, IEC, CEN & CENELEC and manages a catalogue of over 25,000 standards.

NSAI uses Réalta’s Publishing Manager to publish national adoptions & standards as well as draft standards for public review.

When CEN and CENELEC release new European texts, Réalta automatically creates Irish Adoptions for the NSAI publishing team to review and approve.  If a published national adoption is subsequently amended or corrected, Réalta automatically bundles the amendment or correction document with all the previous documents relevant to that adoption.  This ensures that a reader has everything they need in a single publication.

During the standards development process, ISO, IEC, CEN and CENELEC publish draft standards for public review and comment.  Réalta automatically publishes these drafts as NSAI documents adding information about the enquiry and the activities of NSAI.  The NSAI drafts are then automatically uploaded to Your Standards Your Say (the Irish National Enquiry Portal).