S SIGMAGlobal Standards Index

Roadmap to 100 Percent Global Standards Index

> For agentic workers: Execute this roadmap in sequence against the canonical research plan in RESEARCH_PROJECT_PLAN_Global_Standards_Index.md. Keep every source-backed data addition local and remote, update the source registry and research task matrix with each slice, and run validation before publishing.

Goal: Move SIGMA from the current public MVP into a complete, source-backed, machine-readable global standards index covering all 40 domains, all relevant layers, and all major international, regional, and national standards ecosystems.

Current baseline: 88,204 release entries, 20,140 relationship edges, all 40 canonical domains represented, and first ingestors completed for ISO, IETF RFCs, ILO, health priority records, Codex priority records, humanitarian priority records, WHO IRIS staging, UN Treaty Collection/OHCHR treaty staging, IAEA Safety Standards priority records, GRI/SASB sustainability reporting records, NIST cybersecurity and AI records, W3C web standards records, ITU telecommunications records, ETSI ICT records, OASIS/Ecma/GS1 records, IEC electrotechnical records, CCSDS/ECSS space records, UNESCO/ICOMOS/ICOM/ICCROM culture and heritage records, WADA/IOC/IFAB/World Athletics/CAS/FIBA/ITF sports governance records, national standards bodies, and deterministic release quality gates.

Completion target: A v1.0 global release with comprehensive source registry coverage, repeatable ingestion pipelines, explicit provenance, deduplicated relationships, human-readable documentation, rendered project pages, quality reports, and public release artifacts.

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0. Definition of 100 Percent

100 percent does not mean every paywalled full text is copied. It means SIGMA has the best lawful open metadata and source references for every major standards family, and full public-text harvesting where licensing permits.

0.1 Completion Criteria

  1. Domain coverage: all 40 canonical domains have source-backed records beyond seed placeholders.
  2. Layer coverage: global, regional, national, sectoral, treaty, classification, technical, governance, and implementation layers are represented.
  3. Source coverage: every active source family has an entry in data/reference/source_registry.csv.
  4. Task coverage: every domain has planned, active, or completed tasks in data/reference/research_tasks.csv.
  5. Processed data: every promoted source writes schema-valid rows into data/processed/.
  6. Staging discipline: broad harvesters write to data/staging/ until curator filters are proven.
  7. Relationship graph: issuer, successor, amendment, adoption, domain, treaty, and implementation relationships are captured in data/relationships/.
  8. Quality gates: duplicate IDs, missing required fields, malformed URLs, broken local docs, and invalid relationships are checked before release.
  9. Publication: GitHub Pages renders the landing page, downloads, domain coverage, source registry, task coverage, quality reports, and project documentation as HTML.
  10. Release governance: v1.0 has release notes, a Git tag, persistent archival copy, and contribution workflow.

0.2 Workstream Numbering

The remaining work follows the actual research plan order:

  1. Phase 0: Infrastructure hardening.
  2. Phase 1: Free bulk source completion.
  3. Phase 2: Human rights, humanitarian, health, labour, education, and development.
  4. Phase 3: Environment, climate, and natural systems.
  5. Phase 4: Finance, trade, and economic governance.
  6. Phase 5: ICT, digital, AI, and cybersecurity.
  7. Phase 6: Transport, energy, manufacturing, and built environment.
  8. Phase 7: Society, culture, sports, legal, and specialised domains.
  9. Phase 8: National standards bodies and regional standards networks.
  10. Phase 9: Verification, publication, and community launch.
  11. Phase 19: Enhanced architecture, automation, API, graph, multilingual, and sustainability roadmap.

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1. Phase 0 - Infrastructure Hardening

1.1 Repository and Release Discipline

Objective: keep local and remote synchronized for every roadmap step.

Tasks:

  1. Confirm main is aligned with origin/main before each data slice.
  2. Keep generated outputs reproducible through make release.
  3. Keep dist/ ignored and regenerate it from source data.
  4. Store all source references in data/reference/.
  5. Store all promoted normalized records in data/processed/.
  6. Store broad, uncurated harvest results in data/staging/.
  7. Store generated reports in data/reports/ and rendered docs in docs/.

Validation:

make validate
make release
python3 scripts/build_static_site.py
pytest

1.2 Documentation Navigation

Objective: make every project reference open as rendered HTML on GitHub Pages.

Tasks:

  1. Add every major plan, task report, quality report, and schema reference to the static site documentation list.
  2. Add cross-links from README.md, index.md, and the generated Pages footer.
  3. Ensure documentation links use HTML targets, not raw Markdown targets.
  4. Add tests for project reference links where possible.

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2. Phase 1 - Free Bulk Source Completion

2.1 ISO Metadata Expansion

Official resources: ISO Standards catalogue, ISO members, ISO technical committees.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Refresh raw ISO open metadata if a newer official export is available.
  2. Reconcile ISO deliverables with domain taxonomy, ICS codes, technical committees, and national member body records.
  3. Add relationship edges for issued_by, classified_by_ics, handled_by_tc, replaced_by, and adopted_by where source metadata supports it.
  4. Create an ISO refresh report with counts by ICS field, status, committee, and domain.
  5. Run duplicate detection against national adoptions and IEC/ISO joint standards.

Deliverables:

2.2 IETF RFC Completion

Official resources: RFC Editor index and IETF Datatracker.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Refresh RFC metadata from the RFC Editor index.
  2. Add status, obsoletes, updates, and BCP/STD/FYI relationships.
  3. Cross-link active standards-track RFCs to IANA registries where possible.
  4. Add release report counts by RFC status and stream.

2.3 ILO NORMLEX Completion

Official resources: ILO NORMLEX instruments and ratification data.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Refresh all conventions, recommendations, protocols, and declarations.
  2. Add ratification counts and status metadata where freely accessible.
  3. Add relationships between conventions and protocols.
  4. Add labour-domain quality report for active, revised, shelved, and withdrawn instruments.

2.4 UN Treaty Collection Foundation

Official resources: UN Treaty Collection.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Maintain and expand the active UN/OHCHR treaty staging table.
  2. Capture treaty title, chapter, depositary, entry into force, status URL, and parties URL.
  3. Promote high-confidence multilateral treaties into processed data by domain.
  4. Add relationships between treaties, protocols, amendments, and implementing bodies.

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3. Phase 2 - Human Rights, Humanitarian, Health, Labour, Education, and Development

3.1 Domain 1 - Health and Medical Standards

Official resources: WHO IRIS, WHO publications, International Health Regulations, ICD, ICF, essential medicines, emergency care standards.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Turn WHO IRIS staging into a production harvester with strict normative filters.
  2. Separate guidelines, classifications, treaties, policy frameworks, and technical specifications.
  3. Promote only curator-approved IRIS records from data/staging/who_iris_filtered_metadata.csv.
  4. Add WHO source families to source_registry.csv with harvesting cadence and risk notes.
  5. Add relationship edges from WHO records to health, WASH, humanitarian, emergency response, and medicine domains.
  6. Add tests that prevent general publications from flooding the standards index.

3.2 Domain 2 - Food Safety and Agriculture

Official resources: Codex Alimentarius, FAOLEX, IPPC ISPMs, WOAH Codes and Manuals.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Expand Codex beyond the first priority slice to all standards, guidelines, codes of practice, and maximum residue limits where metadata is open.
  2. Add IPPC adopted ISPMs with adoption date, CPM status, and topic.
  3. Add WOAH Terrestrial Code, Aquatic Code, Terrestrial Manual, and Aquatic Manual metadata.
  4. Stage FAOLEX treaty and legislation records, then promote only international and regional standards-relevant instruments.
  5. Add relationships among Codex, WHO, FAO, WTO SPS, IPPC, and WOAH instruments.

3.3 Domain 15 - Human Rights

Official resources: OHCHR core instruments, treaty bodies, special procedures, UN Treaty Collection, regional human rights systems.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add all core UN human rights treaties and optional protocols.
  2. Add treaty body general comments and recommendations with issuing committee and instrument relationship.
  3. Add regional instruments from Europe, Africa, Inter-American, Arab, and ASEAN systems.
  4. Add relationships between treaties, protocols, monitoring bodies, and regional analogues.
  5. Add domain review checklist for sensitive naming, historical status, and official citation.

3.4 Domain 16 - Labour

Official resources: ILO NORMLEX.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Complete all ILO conventions, recommendations, protocols, declarations, and maritime labour instruments.
  2. Add fundamental, governance, technical, and occupational safety classification.
  3. Add relationship edges for revises, supplements, protocol-to-convention, and category membership.
  4. Add ratification/status summary fields where the schema permits or sidecar tables where needed.

3.5 Domain 17 - Humanitarian Standards

Official resources: Sphere, CHS, INEE, IASC, UNHCR Emergency Handbook, WHO Emergency Medical Teams.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Complete Sphere chapter-level and standard-level records.
  2. Expand CHS commitments, quality criteria, and verification scheme records.
  3. Add INEE domains, standards, key actions, and guidance notes at the appropriate granularity.
  4. Add IASC guidelines for protection, GBV, PSEA, mental health, accountability, coordination, shelter, CCCM, and inclusion.
  5. Add UNHCR emergency standards and policy records.
  6. Add WHO EMT minimum standards and classification records.
  7. Add relationships among humanitarian, health, WASH, education, protection, and disaster-risk records.

3.6 Domain 20 - Education and Research

Official resources: UNESCO, ISCED, Declaration of Helsinki, ICH GCP, FAIR Principles, ORCID, Crossref, Dublin Core.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add ISCED and UNESCO qualification recognition conventions.
  2. Add core research ethics and clinical research standards.
  3. Add scholarly metadata standards and persistent identifier systems.
  4. Add relationships between education classifications, research ethics, metadata, and health research standards.

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4. Phase 3 - Environment, Climate, and Natural Systems

4.1 Climate Change and Emissions

Official resources: UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, GHG Protocol, SBTi, TNFD.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, and major COP decision families.
  2. Add GHG Protocol standards and guidance documents.
  3. Add SBTi criteria and sector guidance records.
  4. Add TNFD disclosure framework metadata.
  5. Link climate records to finance, corporate reporting, energy, agriculture, and biodiversity records.

4.2 Biodiversity, Conservation, and Chemicals

Official resources: CBD, CITES, Ramsar, Basel/Rotterdam/Stockholm conventions, Minamata Convention, Montreal Protocol.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add convention, protocol, annex, appendix, and COP decision families.
  2. Model controlled substances, species appendices, wetlands guidance, and chemicals conventions as linked records.
  3. Add treaty-to-secretariat and treaty-to-protocol relationships.
  4. Add environmental source review checklist for living appendices and amendments.

4.3 Disaster Risk, Oceans, and Nuclear Safety

Official resources: Sendai Framework, UNCLOS, IMO conventions, IAEA Safety Standards.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add Sendai Framework and UNDRR terminology records.
  2. Add UNCLOS and related ocean instruments.
  3. Add IMO marine environment and safety conventions that overlap with environment.
  4. Maintain and expand the active IAEA Safety Standards priority metadata slice toward full Safety Standards Series catalogue coverage and relationships to nuclear, energy, health, and environment domains.

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5. Phase 4 - Finance, Trade, and Economic Governance

5.1 Financial Stability, Banking, Insurance, Securities

Official resources: BCBS, FSB, IOSCO, IAIS.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add Basel Framework standards and supporting publications.
  2. Add FSB key standards and compendium links.
  3. Add IOSCO principles, objectives, and methodology records.
  4. Add IAIS Insurance Core Principles and ComFrame.
  5. Link finance records to risk, governance, cybersecurity, sustainability, and accounting records.

5.2 Accounting, Audit, Anti-Money Laundering, Tax

Official resources: IFRS Foundation, ISSB, IAASB, FATF, OECD legal instruments and BEPS.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add IFRS, IAS, IFRIC, SIC, and ISSB standards metadata.
  2. Add audit and assurance standards from IAASB.
  3. Add FATF Recommendations, methodology, and guidance.
  4. Add OECD BEPS actions and major tax instruments.
  5. Add relationships between disclosure, audit, AML, tax, and sustainability reporting standards.

5.3 Trade, Customs, and Product Rules

Official resources: WTO, WCO, UN/CEFACT, ISO 20022.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add WTO agreements, SPS/TBT links, and legal texts.
  2. Stage WTO TBT/SPS notification metadata only where it describes standards-relevant instruments.
  3. Add WCO Harmonized System and customs instruments.
  4. Add UN/CEFACT trade facilitation recommendations.
  5. Add ISO 20022 metadata and relationships to banking, payments, and messaging standards.

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6. Phase 5 - ICT, Digital, AI, and Cybersecurity

6.1 Web, Internet, Telecom, and Interoperability

Official resources: W3C, IETF, ITU, ETSI, OASIS, ECMA, GS1.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Maintain and expand the active W3C priority Standards metadata slice toward the full Technical Reports standards index.
  2. Maintain and expand the active ITU priority Recommendations slice by sector, series, and study group.
  3. Maintain and expand the active ETSI priority standards slice and cross-links to European standards.
  4. Maintain and expand the active OASIS, Ecma, and GS1 priority metadata slices toward full standards-catalogue coverage.
  5. Create relationships among web, telecom, identity, supply chain, and cybersecurity records.

6.2 Cybersecurity and Privacy

Official resources: NIST CSRC, FIPS, ENISA, PCI SSC, ISO/IEC metadata.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add NIST SP 800 series and FIPS records.
  2. Add ENISA good-practice and framework records where standards-relevant.
  3. Add PCI DSS and PCI SSC standards.
  4. Link ISO/IEC 27000 family metadata to cybersecurity frameworks and controls.
  5. Add privacy regulation instruments only when they define reusable compliance frameworks or standards.

6.3 Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology

Official resources: NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 42, OECD AI, UNESCO AI Ethics, EU AI Act.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add AI risk, governance, ethics, management, and conformity assessment records.
  2. Add quantum, identity, and data governance standards from official standards bodies.
  3. Link AI records to privacy, cybersecurity, human rights, health, finance, and education domains.

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7. Phase 6 - Transport, Energy, Manufacturing, and Built Environment

7.1 Aviation, Maritime, Space, Road, and Rail

Official resources: ICAO, IMO, CCSDS, ECSS, UNECE WP.29, UIC where public.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add ICAO Annex-level metadata and SARPs structure where lawful.
  2. Add IMO conventions, codes, and circular families.
  3. Maintain and expand the active CCSDS/ECSS priority metadata slice toward full space standards catalogue coverage.
  4. Add UNECE vehicle regulations and global technical regulations.
  5. Add relationship edges among transport safety, space operations, emissions, labour, trade, and accessibility standards.

7.2 Energy, Electrical, Nuclear, and Smart Infrastructure

Official resources: IEC, IAEA, ISO 50001, ITU smart grid, IRENA where standards-relevant.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Maintain and expand the active IEC priority metadata slice toward full IEC catalogue coverage by technical committee and standard family.
  2. Add ISO energy management family metadata.
  3. Maintain and expand the active IAEA Safety Standards priority metadata slice and add nuclear security series.
  4. Add smart grid, renewable energy, and energy efficiency framework records.

7.3 Manufacturing, Quality, Construction, and Built Environment

Official resources: ISO, IEC, ASTM, ASME, NFPA, ASHRAE, CEN/CENELEC public metadata.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Capture public metadata for major engineering standards where full text is paywalled.
  2. Enrich internationally important quality, safety, construction, and manufacturing standards.
  3. Add adoption relationships between ISO/IEC, European, and national standards where source metadata permits.

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8. Phase 7 - Society, Culture, Sports, Legal, and Specialised Domains

8.1 Law, Commercial Practice, and Governance

Official resources: UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT, OECD legal instruments, ICC public summaries, UN Treaty Collection.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add UNCITRAL model laws, conventions, legislative guides, and rules.
  2. Add UNIDROIT conventions, principles, and model laws.
  3. Add OECD legal instruments by theme.
  4. Add ICC instruments with open metadata and official reference URLs.
  5. Add relationships between legal instruments, trade, finance, arbitration, and governance records.

8.2 Culture, Heritage, and Knowledge Systems

Official resources: UNESCO conventions, ICOMOS charters, ICOM Code of Ethics, ICCROM resources.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add UNESCO culture and heritage conventions. Initial priority slice active in data/processed/culture_heritage_standards.csv.
  2. Add ICOMOS charters and doctrinal texts. Initial Venice Charter and Nara Document records active.
  3. Add ICOM and ICCROM standards and guidance records. Initial ICOM Code of Ethics and ICCROM crisis first-aid records active.
  4. Link culture records to education, indigenous rights, environment, and disaster risk.

8.3 Sports, Anti-Doping, and Event Governance

Official resources: WADA, UNESCO anti-doping convention, IOC, FIFA, World Athletics, CAS.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add WADA Code, international standards, and prohibited list records. Initial World Anti-Doping Code and 2026 Prohibited List records active in data/processed/sports_recreation_standards.csv.
  2. Add UNESCO anti-doping convention.
  3. Add Olympic Charter, FIFA legal instruments, World Athletics rules, and CAS procedural rules. Initial Olympic Charter, IFAB Laws, World Athletics rules, CAS Code, FIBA rules, and ITF rules records active.
  4. Link sports records to health, law, human rights, safety, and event management.

8.4 Defence, Security, Arms Control, and Public Safety

Official resources: UNODA, OPCW, CTBTO, IAEA, NATO public documents, US DoD public standards.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add arms control treaties and verification instruments.
  2. Add public NATO documents and declassified/public military standards metadata.
  3. Add relationships among security, nuclear, chemical, humanitarian law, and public safety records.
  4. Keep restricted or non-public material out of the index.

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9. Phase 8 - National Standards Bodies and Regional Networks

9.1 ISO Member Body Completion

Official resources: ISO member list and national body websites.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Expand from the first 10 national standards bodies to every ISO member, correspondent member, and subscriber member.
  2. Capture official name, acronym, country, website, membership category, founding year where available, and designation series.
  3. Link each body to ISO, IEC, regional standards organizations, and national standards catalogues.
  4. Add national body validation checks for official URL, ISO membership category, and duplicate country coverage.

9.2 Regional Standards Organizations

Official resources: CEN/CENELEC, ETSI, ARSO, ASEAN, GSO, COPANT, PASC.

References:

Tasks:

  1. Add regional standards organizations and member relationships.
  2. Add regional standard series metadata where public.
  3. Map adoption links between international, regional, and national layers.
  4. Prioritize regions underrepresented in current global standards datasets.

9.3 Nationally Important Standard Families

References: national catalogue URLs from each source registry entry.

Tasks:

  1. For each high-impact national body, identify internationally significant native standard families.
  2. Add public metadata only unless full text is open.
  3. Mark adoption, equivalence, withdrawal, and replacement relationships.
  4. Document licensing limits for paywalled national standards.

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10. Phase 9 - Verification, Publication, and Community Launch

10.1 Data Quality Gates

Tasks:

  1. Duplicate sigma_id check.
  2. Required field completeness check.
  3. Official URL syntax check.
  4. Optional live URL audit with rate limits and retry policy.
  5. Relationship target existence check.
  6. Domain taxonomy validity check.
  7. Source registry coverage check.
  8. Research task coverage check.
  9. Markdown documentation rendering check.
  10. Release artifact generation check.

10.2 Expert and Community Review

Tasks:

  1. Assign one reviewer per meta-layer: health, food/agriculture, labour, humanitarian, environment, finance/trade, ICT, engineering, law, culture/sports, national bodies.
  2. Create GitHub issue templates for source correction, duplicate report, missing standard, broken link, and domain expansion.
  3. Add review labels that map back to domain IDs and roadmap phases.
  4. Publish review status in docs/RESEARCH_TASKS.md.

10.3 v1.0 Publication

Tasks:

  1. Freeze v1.0 source data after validation.
  2. Generate CSV, JSON, JSONL, relationship, domain coverage, source registry, quality gate, and task coverage artifacts.
  3. Build and publish GitHub Pages.
  4. Create GitHub release and tag.
  5. Archive release on Zenodo or another open repository.
  6. Announce to standards, open data, humanitarian, public health, and research communities.

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11. Phase 19 - Enhanced Architecture and Sustainability

11.1 Knowledge Graph

Tasks:

  1. Define RDF/JSON-LD mapping for standards, bodies, domains, classifications, treaties, and relationships.
  2. Generate graph exports from canonical CSV/JSON.
  3. Add relationship types for implements, amends, replaces, cites, adopts, equivalent_to, classified_by, and issued_by.
  4. Add graph validation checks.

11.2 Search, API, and User Experience

Tasks:

  1. Maintain the active Pagefind-compatible static full-text search layer in GitHub Pages.
  2. Extend domain filtering into issuer, country, source family, status, and phase filters.
  3. Add API index documentation with examples.
  4. Add downloadable slices for standards bodies, treaties, health, humanitarian, environment, finance, ICT, and national body records.
  5. Add accessibility checks for the published Pages site.

11.3 Automation and Freshness

Tasks:

  1. Classify sources by update cadence: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, manual.
  2. Add deterministic fixture tests for every harvester.
  3. Add staging reports that show candidate counts, promoted counts, rejected counts, and filter reasons.
  4. Add source freshness reports by domain.
  5. Keep broad harvesters conservative until false-positive risk is measured.

11.4 Multilingual and Global Equity

Tasks:

  1. Preserve official names in original languages where available.
  2. Add alternate names and acronyms without overwriting official English titles.
  3. Prioritize underrepresented regions and Global South standards bodies.
  4. Add translation and transliteration fields only through schema-governed changes.

11.5 Governance and Partnerships

Tasks:

  1. Publish curation rules, conflict resolution process, and source acceptance rules.
  2. Recruit domain maintainers.
  3. Create partnership outreach list for standards bodies, academic libraries, humanitarian networks, and open data communities.
  4. Define release cadence after v1.0.

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12. Sequenced Execution Plan

12.1 Next 30 Days

  1. Promote the roadmap into project documentation and Pages navigation.
  2. Complete Phase 2 WHO IRIS promotion rules.
  3. Expand Codex/IPPC/WOAH food and agriculture coverage.
  4. Expand CHS/INEE/IASC/UNHCR/EMT humanitarian coverage.
  5. Expand active OHCHR core human rights instrument staging into promoted treaty records.
  6. Expand active UN Treaty Collection staging.
  7. Add source registry rows for every source touched.
  8. Run full validation and publish after each slice.

12.2 Days 31-90

  1. Complete Phase 2 labour, human rights, health, humanitarian, education, and development.
  2. Build Phase 3 environmental treaty ingestors and curated tables.
  3. Add first finance/trade source families: BCBS, FATF, IFRS, WTO, OECD.
  4. Add relationship extraction improvements.
  5. Add source freshness and task coverage reports to Pages.

12.3 Months 4-6

  1. Complete Phase 3 environment and climate.
  2. Complete Phase 4 finance, trade, and economic governance.
  3. Expand active W3C, ITU, NIST, ETSI, OASIS, Ecma, and GS1 metadata from priority slices toward full catalogue coverage.
  4. Add national standards body expansion to at least all ISO full members.
  5. Add expert review workflow and issue labels.

12.4 Months 7-12

  1. Complete Phase 5 ICT, AI, privacy, and cybersecurity.
  2. Complete Phase 6 transport, energy, manufacturing, and built environment metadata.
  3. Complete Phase 7 legal, culture, sports, defence, and specialised domains.
  4. Complete all ISO member, correspondent, and subscriber body records.
  5. Prepare v0.9 release candidate with quality reports.

12.5 Months 13-24

  1. Complete regional and national adoption relationships.
  2. Build knowledge graph exports.
  3. Add richer static search and API documentation.
  4. Complete multilingual metadata policy and first alternate-name pass.
  5. Run expert review and public correction campaign.
  6. Publish SIGMA v1.0 complete release.

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13. Master Source Reference Register

PhaseSource familyOfficial resource
1ISO standardshttps://www.iso.org/standards.html
1ISO membershttps://www.iso.org/members.html
1RFC Editorhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.html
1IETF Datatrackerhttps://datatracker.ietf.org/
1ILO NORMLEXhttps://normlex.ilo.org/
1UN Treaty Collectionhttps://treaties.un.org/
2WHO IRIShttps://iris.who.int/
2WHO publicationshttps://www.who.int/publications
2Codex Alimentariushttps://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/codex-texts/list-standards/
2FAOLEXhttps://www.fao.org/faolex/
2IPPC ISPMshttps://www.ippc.int/en/core-activities/standards-setting/ispms/
2WOAH standardshttps://www.woah.org/en/what-we-do/standards/
2OHCHR instrumentshttps://www.ohchr.org/en/core-international-human-rights-instruments-and-their-monitoring-bodies
2Sphere Handbookhttps://spherestandards.org/handbook/
2Core Humanitarian Standardhttps://www.corehumanitarianstandard.org/
2INEE Minimum Standardshttps://inee.org/minimum-standards
2IASChttps://interagencystandingcommittee.org/
2UNHCR Emergency Handbookhttps://emergency.unhcr.org/
2WHO Emergency Medical Teamshttps://extranet.who.int/emt/
2UNESCO ISCEDhttps://uis.unesco.org/en/topic/international-standard-classification-education-isced
3UNFCCChttps://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings
3GHG Protocolhttps://ghgprotocol.org/standards
3CBDhttps://www.cbd.int/convention/
3CITEShttps://cites.org/eng/disc/text.php
3Ramsarhttps://www.ramsar.org/
3Basel, Rotterdam, Stockholm conventionshttps://www.brsmeas.org/
3Minamata Conventionhttps://minamataconvention.org/
3Montreal Protocolhttps://ozone.unep.org/treaties/montreal-protocol
3UNDRR Sendaihttps://www.undrr.org/implementing-sendai-framework
3UNCLOShttps://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm
3IAEA Safety Standardshttps://www.iaea.org/resources/safety-standards
4Basel Frameworkhttps://www.bis.org/basel_framework/
4FSB compendiumhttps://www.fsb.org/work-of-the-fsb/about-the-compendium-of-standards/
4IOSCO publicationshttps://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/
4IAIS standardshttps://www.iaisweb.org/activities/standard-setting/
4IFRS standardshttps://www.ifrs.org/issued-standards/list-of-standards/
4IAASB standardshttps://www.iaasb.org/standards-pronouncements
4FATF recommendationshttps://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Fatfrecommendations/Fatf-recommendations.html
4OECD legal instrumentshttps://legalinstruments.oecd.org/
4WTO legal textshttps://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/legal_e.htm
4WTO TBT IMShttps://tbtims.wto.org/
4WCOhttps://www.wcoomd.org/
4UN/CEFACThttps://unece.org/trade/uncefact
5W3C Recommendationshttps://www.w3.org/TR/
5ITU Recommendationshttps://www.itu.int/rec/
5ETSI standardshttps://www.etsi.org/standards
5OASIS standardshttps://www.oasis-open.org/standards/
5ECMA standardshttps://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/
5GS1 standardshttps://www.gs1.org/standards
5NIST CSRChttps://csrc.nist.gov/
5NIST AI RMFhttps://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework
5ENISA publicationshttps://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications
5PCI SSC standardshttps://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/standards/
5UNESCO AI Ethicshttps://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics
6IEC standardshttps://webstore.iec.ch/
6ICAO SARPshttps://www.icao.int/safety/safetymanagement/pages/sarps.aspx
6IMO conventionshttps://www.imo.org/en/About/Conventions/Pages/ListOfConventions.aspx
6UNECE vehicle regulationshttps://unece.org/transport/vehicle-regulations
6ASTM standardshttps://www.astm.org/products-services/standards-and-publications.html
6ASME codes and standardshttps://www.asme.org/codes-standards
6NFPA codes and standardshttps://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards
6ASHRAE standardshttps://www.ashrae.org/technical-resources/standards-and-guidelines
7UNCITRAL textshttps://uncitral.un.org/en/texts
7UNIDROIT instrumentshttps://www.unidroit.org/instruments/
7UNESCO conventionshttps://www.unesco.org/en/legal-affairs/conventions
7ICOMOS chartershttps://www.icomos.org/en/resources/charters-and-texts
7ICOM Code of Ethicshttps://icom.museum/en/resources/standards-guidelines/code-of-ethics/
7WADA Codehttps://www.wada-ama.org/en/what-we-do/world-anti-doping-code
7IOC Olympic Charterhttps://olympics.com/ioc/olympic-charter
7FIFA legalhttps://www.fifa.com/legal
7World Athletics ruleshttps://worldathletics.org/about-iaaf/documents/book-of-rules
7CAS ruleshttps://www.tas-cas.org/en/arbitration/code-procedural-rules.html
7UNODA disarmamenthttps://disarmament.unoda.org/
7OPCW Chemical Weapons Conventionhttps://www.opcw.org/chemical-weapons-convention
7CTBTO treatyhttps://www.ctbto.org/our-mission/the-treaty
8CEN/CENELEChttps://www.cencenelec.eu/
8ARSOhttps://www.arso-oran.org/
8ASEAN standards and conformancehttps://asean.org/our-communities/economic-community/standards-and-conformance/
8GSOhttps://www.gso.org.sa/
8COPANThttps://www.copant.org/
8PASChttps://www.pascnet.org/

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14. Acceptance Checklist for Every Slice

  1. Source is official, stable, and documented.
  2. Licensing is respected; paywalled full text is not copied.
  3. New source family is added to source_registry.csv.
  4. New task or status update is added to research_tasks.csv.
  5. Ingestor has deterministic fixture tests when automated.
  6. Processed rows conform to SCHEMA.md.
  7. Relationship rows validate against processed IDs.
  8. Documentation explains scope, exclusions, and next steps.
  9. make validate passes.
  10. Static site builds and renders relevant docs.
  11. Changes are committed locally and published remotely.

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15. Gap Analysis Incorporation Register

The external feedback document docs/SIGMA_GAP_ANALYSIS_AND_ENHANCEMENT_PLAN.md has been reviewed against the current repository state. Items below are now accepted into the roadmap and reflected in data/reference/research_tasks.csv where they require follow-up work.

15.1 Accepted Critical Enhancements

  1. Full CI gate: add one explicit ci.yml that runs make validate and the pytest suite on push and pull request, complementing the existing schema, release, URL check, and Pages workflows.
  2. README credibility signals: keep badges, sample records, and contributor pathways visible from the first screen of the repository.
  3. Search and discovery: maintain the active Pagefind-compatible static search layer and extend it with richer filters before public v1.0.
  4. Priority ingestors: add W3C, NIST, IEC, ITU, IAEA, CCSDS, GRI/SASB, UN Treaty Collection, sports, and culture/heritage work items to the task matrix.
  5. Publication and outreach: track HDX submission and Zenodo DOI publication as launch-quality tasks.

15.2 Current-State Corrections

  1. GitHub Actions are present; the gap is unified CI coverage and report publication, not total absence of workflows.
  2. GitHub Pages is present and designed with Pagefind-compatible search; the remaining gap is richer faceting and entry-level browsing.
  3. Issue templates exist; the gap is structured YAML forms for domain contributions and source corrections.
  4. Relationship edges exist in relationships_extracted.csv; the remaining quality task is confidence review and source traceability.

15.3 First Implementation Order

  1. Add full CI workflow.
  2. Render the gap analysis as a project reference.
  3. Convert accepted recommendations into research_tasks.csv.
  4. Generate updated task coverage docs.
  5. Keep future harvester implementation in separate source-specific slices so each source can be tested and reviewed safely.