Human- and machine-readable KC reports using the PDF/A-3 format | BIPM

The BIPM is pleased to announce the publication of the first key comparison report embedding machine-readable (XML and JSON) versions of the document. Use of the PDF/A-3 standard in this way was originally suggested by METAS (Switzerland) in the context of Digital Calibration Certificates (DCC).^[1] The recent update of the BIPM.RI(II)-K1.Ce-139 comparison – using the BIPM’s International Reference System (SIR) for radionuclide metrology – provided an opportunity to introduce this approach for the first time in reporting a key comparison.

Source: 2022-09-30-machine-readable-KC – BIPM