ISO/IEC 19988:2024

International
Standard
ISO/IEC 19988
Third edition
Information technology — Core
Business Vocabulary (CBV)
Technologies de l'information — Vocabulaire normatif relatif aux
activités de base
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This document was prepared by GS1 [as the Core Business Vocabulary (CBV) Standard, Release 2.0] and
drafted in accordance with its editorial rules. It was adopted, under the JTC 1 PAS procedure, by Joint Technical
Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology.
This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition (ISO/IEC 19988:2017), which has been technically
revised.
The main changes are as follows:
— support for GS1 Web Vocabulary, URI semantic equivalence by means of owl:sameAs relationships;
— new "How" event dimension;
— overview of EPCIS event "dimensions" with cross-references to relevant sections in EPCIS
(ISO/IEC 19987) and CBV (this document);
— new Persistent Disposition indicating non-transient business state of an object;
— use of new prefix 952 in all examples;
— new business step values: sampling, sensor_reporting;
— clarified definitions of business step values: commissioning, encoding, inspecting, removing;
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— addition of new disposition values: available, completeness_verified, completeness_inferred, conformant,
container_open, mismatch_instance, mismatch_class, mismatch_quantity, needs replacement,
non_conformant, unavailable;
— clarified definition and example of disposition value in_progress, recommending omission;
— deprecated disposition value: no_pedigree_match;
— new business transaction types cert, testprd, testres, upevt;
— clarified definition of business transaction type poc to make it clear that Purchase Order Confirmation is
also used to represent Sales Order;
— sensor measurement types now supported;
— clarification o
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