CHANGELOG
All notable changes to the SIGMA Unified Global Standards Index are documented here. Format: [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/). Data changes use the same version scheme.
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[Unreleased]
Planned
- Phase 2E UN/OHCHR human-rights treaty promotion from staging to release
- Phase 2D WHO IRIS normative candidates promotion from staging to release
- v1.0 GitHub Release tag + Zenodo DOI assignment
- HDX (Humanitarian Data Exchange) dataset submission
- REST API deployment (Cloudflare Workers free tier)
- Multilingual field additions:
name_full_fr,name_full_es,name_full_ar
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[0.9.0] — 2026-05-04 (Current)
Added
- Phase 7B: Sports and Recreation priority ingestor (WADA, IOC, IFAB, World Athletics, CAS, FIBA, ITF) — 9 entries
- Phase 7A: Culture and Heritage priority ingestor (UNESCO, ICOMOS, ICOM, ICCROM) — 9 entries
- Phase 8A: National standards body registry slice (ANSI, BSI, DIN, BIS, JISC, SAC, ABNT, SABS, KEBS, BSTI) — initial 10 bodies
- Phase 6B: CCSDS and ECSS space standards ingestor — 9 entries
- Phase 6A: IEC electrotechnical priority ingestor — 8 entries
- Phase 5E: OASIS, Ecma, and GS1 open ICT standards ingestor
- Phase 5D: ETSI ICT standards priority ingestor
- Phase 5C: ITU-T telecommunications priority ingestor
- Phase 5B: W3C web standards priority ingestor
- Phase 5A: NIST cybersecurity and AI priority ingestor — 7 entries
- Phase 4A: GRI and SASB sustainability reporting ingestor — 11 entries
- Phase 3A: IAEA Safety Standards priority ingestor — 9 entries
- Phase 2C: Humanitarian standards expansion (CHS, INEE, IASC, UNHCR, WHO EMT) — 7 entries
- Phase 2B: Codex Alimentarius priority ingestor — 9 entries
- Phase 2A: Health priority ingestor (WHO/Sphere/WASH) — 5 entries
- Domain agent scaffold:
domain_agents.ymlworkflow with 12 domain workers run_domain_worker.pyrunner for scheduled and manual agent dispatch- Pagefind search index on GitHub Pages (
make pagefind-search) build_relationship_quality.py— relationship graph audit reportstage_un_treaties.py— UN Treaty Collection staging pipelinecheck_urls.py— monthly URL health auditbuild_static_site.py— GitHub Pages static site generatorsync_google_sheet.py— Google Sheet curation sync- All 8 GitHub Issue templates (broken link, domain expansion, duplicate, error correction, missing standard, new entry, source correction, config)
AGENTS.md— repository-wide instructions for Codex and automation agents.github/copilot-instructions.md— GitHub Copilot instructionsdocs/PROJECT_KNOWLEDGE_GRAPH.md— maintainer pipeline mapdocs/SIGMA_GAP_ANALYSIS_AND_ENHANCEMENT_PLAN.md— external gap analysisdocs/PROJECT_STATUS_REPORT_2026-05-02.md— milestone status reportdocs/OPERATOR_DASHBOARD.md— maintainer operations dashboarddocs/AGENT_MEMORY_HANDOFF.md— safe durable memory handoffdocs/GITHUB_AGENTIC_SETUP_GUIDE.md— click-by-click setup guidedata/reference/domain_worker_registry.csv— GitHub domain-agent registrydata/reference/research_tasks.csv— 24-month research plan as machine-readable tasksdata/relationships/relationships_template.csv— graph edge template- BindingDB life-science research utilities (
bindingdb_lookup.py,rest_request.py) - Required gate workflow (
required_gate.yml)
Changed
- Release bundle expanded to 13 artifact types
- README enhanced with sample records table, phase-by-phase documentation, badges
- SCHEMA.md updated with supplementary entity table specifications
- Makefile extended to 30+ deterministic targets
Fixed
- Quality gate now catches duplicate sigma_id, missing required fields, malformed URLs
Metrics
- Master entries: 88,204
- Relationship edges: 20,140
- Canonical domains: 40 / 40
- Quality gate: PASS (0 critical failures)
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[0.5.0] — 2026-04-15
Added
- ISO Open Data seed (25,703 standard metadata records)
- IETF RFC Editor bulk seed (9,400+ internet protocol records)
- ILO NORMLEX bulk ingestor (252 Convention and Recommendation entries)
- Wikidata SPARQL national standards body metadata
validate_schema.py,validate_relationships.py,build_quality_gate.pybuild_release.pygenerating CSV, JSON, JSONL, and API index artifactsbuild_domain_coverage.py— per-domain entry count reportextract_relationships.py— ILO supersedes and ISO references graph edgesvalidate_domain_registry.py,build_research_task_report.py- CI workflow (
ci.yml) with schema validation and release build - Schema validation workflow (
schema_validation.yml) - Release build workflow (
release_build.yml) - Pages workflow (
pages.yml) with Pagefind integration - URL health check workflow (
url_check.yml) on monthly schedule - 22-field SIGMA master schema (
SCHEMA.md) - 40-domain canonical taxonomy (
data/reference/domain_taxonomy.csv) - Source registry (
data/reference/source_registry.csv) - CC BY 4.0 LICENSE
pyproject.tomlwith 6 CLI entry pointsCODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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[0.1.0] — 2026-04-01
Added
- Initial repository structure at
github.com/sigma-standards/sigma-index - GitHub organisation
sigma-standardscreated README.md,CONTRIBUTING.md,SCHEMA.md- ISO raw seed files committed to
data/raw/iso/ - GitHub Pages enabled
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*Maintained by Mohammad Ariful Islam — CPI Bangladesh Mission.* *Corrections welcome via GitHub Issues: https://github.com/sigma-standards/sigma-index/issues*