Metanorma is dedicated to harmonizing standard documents produced by different standard-setting bodies in a manner that maintains correct semantics while allowing each standard publisher to define appropriate semantic extensions.

Simply put, it allows standards bodies or any other organization to create their own standard or specification document in a best practices manner.

Metanorma is composed of a number of specifications and software implementations. The Metanorma document model is based on the SecureDoc document model.

Metanorma includes the following sub-projects:

• The Metanorma document model (previously called StanDoc)

• IETF Internet-Drafts and RFCs: the AsciiRFC syntax, the asciidoctor-rfc RFC XML v2 and v3 implementations

• ISO Standards: the AsciiISO syntax, the IsoDoc Models, the asciidoctor-iso IsoDoc implementation

• CalConnect Standard Documents (CSD): the AsciiCSD syntax, CSD Models, the asciidoctor-csd implementation

• Chinese GuoBiao (GB) Standards: the AsciiGB syntax, GbDoc Models, the asciidoctor-gb implementation

Installation

The Metanorma workflow can be utilized via the metanorma Ruby gem.

gem install metanorma

Usage

metanorma --type <chosen-type> [--format input-format] iso-my-standard-document.adoc

Options:

type

(specified via --type or -t) takes one of the following types: rfc2, rfc3, iso, gb, csd

format

(specified via --format or -f) only accepts asciidoc for now

As the --format argument is (currently) optional, so:

metanorma --type iso iso-my-standard-document.adoc

Origin of name

Meta- is a prefix of Greek origin ("μετα") for “with” or simply “of”, and norma is Latin for “rule” and “standard”. The Metanorma project is for setting a standard for standard documents created by standards-setting organizations, and therefore is given this rather fitting name.