German information center for technical rules

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The Fachinformationszentrum German Information Center for Technical Rules (DITR) was founded in 1979 by the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) and the Federal Government as part of the “Program for the Promotion of Information and Documentation (IuD Program) 1974–1977”.

The task of the DITR was to inform the public and authorities about the status of the technical rules and legal and administrative regulations with technical specifications as well as their obligations and interrelationships. From 1982 the DITR supplied the first German industrial company with data supplies for regular updating of their metadata for standard information. In 1984, five years after the founding of the DITR, information on 40,000 technical rules could be made available. In 1985 the bibliographical data of the DITR database was expanded to include the first full texts. Due to the demand of the export-oriented German industry, the DITR now also provided data on American and other national standards.

In 1989 the DITR's user committee (now DIN Software GmbH ) was founded. He was and is a link between the users of information products or services from the DITR database and the manufacturer. The previous hierarchical structure of the DITR database was replaced in 1996 by a relational database. From the year 2000 the DITR database was also used as a master database by DIN, Beuth Verlag and DIN Software GmbH for standard and document verification.

In 2003, the German Information Center for Technical Rules DITR operated by DIN and its database were incorporated into DIN Software GmbH .

literature

  • Volker Hauff : DIN-Mitteilungen + elektronorm 58.1979, No. 12, pp. 744-748 and DIN-Mitteilungen + elektronorm 64.1985, No. 1, pp. 18-25.
  • DIN-Mitteilungen + elektronorm 64.1985, No. 2, pp. 63-66.
  • Lothar Hertel, Brigitte Oberbichler, Daniela Trescher: Systematically researching technical rules . DIN / Beuth Verlag, Berlin 2012.
  • Gerhard Pahl, Wolfgang Beitz (Ed.) (2013): Design theory - methods and application of successful product development . P. 154 and p. 174 ff.
  • Martin Klein (2001): Introduction to the DIN standards, 13th edition, pp. 15-16.