A Work in Progress …
EDCS Version 2.7
- Part of the current SEDRIS 3.0 Release
- Fully supported; in active use
- Alphanumeric codes based on extended-FACC
- Units approach not SI-compliant
- Convolves unit-type and scale
- No notion of Groups to aid search
EDCS Version 3.0
- Development within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC24 WG8
- 4th working draft due in October
- Integration within SEDRIS Release by early 2001
- Pure numeric codes
- Fully SI-compliant – unit-type and scale separated
- Groups aid search
- Full mappings provided
- Backward compatibility to EDCS 2.7
- Formal mappings to FACC, JMCDM, UCDM, ...