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NIST publication identifiers ("NIST PubID")

Purpose

NIST publications are numbered according to an identification scheme.

This gem implements a mechanism to parse and utilize NIST publication identifiers provided in the NIST-Tech-Pubs repository.

This gem is introduced in the Metanorma blog post "Introducing NIST PubID, and the migration of publication identifiers" on 2022-01-09.

For further details on the Metanorma work on the NIST PubID, refer to the "Ribose comments to Publication Identifier Syntax for NIST Technical Series Publications" document.

Historic identifier patterns

There are at least three major "pattern series" of identifiers due to historical reasons:

  • NIST publications produced by the PubID scheme (202X-)

  • NIST publications produced prior to the PubID scheme (1988-)

  • NBS publications, produced under the National Bureau of Standards (the previous name of NIST, 1901 to 1988)

This implementation attempts to support all three types of publication identifier patterns.

NIST PubID

NIST is currently developing a unified publication identifier scheme ("PubID") for their technical series of publications, which allows machine-readable identifier parts.

This scheme is described in “Publication Identifier Syntax for NIST Technical Series Publications” authored by Jim Foti of the CSD, ITL, and Kathryn Miller and Kate Bucher of the ISO, Management Resources.

Note
This scheme is still at proposal stage.

This gem implements the NIST PubID scheme and allows the conversion to and from historic patterns.

Use cases to support

PubID:

  1. Given a PubID (full-form title, abbreviated-form title, short-form title), generate the corresponding machine-readable (MR) PubID format

  2. Given a MR PubID:

    1. generate the full-form title

    2. generate the abbreviated-form title

    3. generate short-form title

    4. generate the DOI (which is just DOI ID + MR)

Historic compatibility:

  1. Parse a historic publication identifier into its components:

    1. output the original publication identifier (i.e. store the contents in the object)

    2. output a MR PubID

  2. Parse a historic DOI into a PubID:

    1. output the original DOI (i.e. store the contents in the object)

    2. output a MR PubID

CLI conversion tool

We implemented an open-source conversion tool that extracts the required PubID data elements from existing NIST Tech Pubs metadata, such as the legacy identifier, DOI, edition and publication date information, to generate the new PubID. pubid-nist provides a CLI (Command-Line Interface) and a Ruby library that can be used to create and manipulate PubID objects.

Installation

The only prerequisite is to have Ruby installed. Please refer to the official Ruby installation guide.

The pubid-nist tool can be installed as follows.

$ gem install pubid-nist

Now you should be able to use the pubid-nist command.

Usage

Installation

The only prerequisite is to have Ruby installed. Please refer to the official Ruby installation guide.

The pubid-nist tool can be installed as follows.

$ gem install pubid-nist

Now you should be able to use the pubid-nist command.

When called without arguments (or as pubid-nist help) the help screen will be shown.

$ pubid-nist
Commands:
  pubid-nist convert         # Convert legacy NIST Tech Pubs ID to NIST PubID
  pubid-nist help [COMMAND]  # Describe available commands or one specific command
  pubid-nist report          # Create report for NIST Tech Pubs database (fetches from GitHub)

Converting a legacy identifier to NIST PubID

The command pubid-nist provides a convert subcommand that converts a legacy Nist Tech Pubs identifier into the NIST PubID format.

Here’s how it can be used:

$ pubid-nist help convert
Usage:
  pubid-nist convert

Options:
  -s, [--style=STYLE]    # Convert to PubID style (short|long|mr|abbrev)
                         # Default: short
  -f, [--format=FORMAT]  # Render in format (JSON, string)
                         # Default: string

Convert legacy NIST Tech Pubs ID to NIST PubID
$ pubid-nist convert "NIST SP 800-53a"
NIST SP 800-53A
$ pubid-nist convert "NIST SP 800-57p1r3"
NIST SP 800-57pt1r3

The convert command also supports DOI conversion.

$ pubid-nist convert "NIST.SP.800-57p1r3"
NIST SP 800-57pt1r3

In addition to outputting PubID short style, we can also output other styles and formats of the resulting PubID.

$ pubid-nist convert -s mr "NIST SP 800-53a"
NIST.SP.800-53A
$ pubid-nist convert -s long -f json "NIST SP 800-53a" | jq
{
  "styles": {
    "short": "NIST SP 800-53A",
    "abbrev": "Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 800-53A",
    "long": "National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53A",
    "mr": "NIST.SP.800-53A"
  },
  "publisher": "NIST",
  "serie": "NIST SP",
  "code": "800-53A"
}

Generating the bulk NIST Tech Pubs migration report

This is the nice part — a single command that generates the full table of converted PubIDs from the NIST Tech Pubs database, comprising of 19,333 entries.

The report command can be used as follows:

$ pubid-nist help report
Usage:
  pubid-nist report

Options:
  [--csv], [--no-csv]  # Export to CSV format

Create report for NIST Tech Pubs database (fetches from GitHub)

The purpose of this command is to aid the NIST PubID team in assessing the impact and type of changes to be made in enacting this new scheme.

By default, the report command generates a table to indicate which migrated identifiers have changed, focusing on changes of two styles:

  • PubID in short style vs legacy publication ID

  • PubID in machine-readable style vs legacy DOI

As seen in the following output, a or a - will be shown in the appropriate column of change.

$ pubid-nist report
ID changed? | New PubID | Document ID | DOI changed? | New PubID-MR | DOI | Title
 - | NBS BH 1 | NBS BH 1 |  - | NBS.BH.1 | NBS.BH.1 | Recommended minimum requirements for small dwelling construction : report of Building Code Committee July 20, 1922
 - | NBS BH 10 | NBS BH 10 |  - | NBS.BH.10 | NBS.BH.10 | A city planning primer by the advisory committee on zoning appointed by Secretary Hoover
 ...
✅ | NBS BH 3A | NBS BH 3a || NBS.BH.3A | NBS.BH.3a | A zoning primer by the advisory committee on zoning appointed by Secretary Hoover (Revised)
 - | NBS BH 4 | NBS BH 4 |  - | NBS.BH.4 | NBS.BH.4 | How to own your home : a handbook for prospective home owners
✅ | NBS BH 5A | NBS BH 5a || NBS.BH.5A | NBS.BH.5a | A standard state zoning enabling act under which municipalities may adopt zoning regulations by the advisory committee on zoning appointed by Secretary Hoover (revised edition 1926)
...
✅ | NBS RPT 2751 | NBS report ; 2751 |  - | NBS.RPT.2751 | NBS.RPT.2751 | Stochastic search for the maximum of a function
 ...
✅ | NBS RPT 2831 | NBS report ; 2831 |  - | NBS.RPT.2831 | NBS.RPT.2831 | Error bounds for eigenvalues of symmetric integral equations

Better yet, the report command supports CSV output. The "changes" fields will display true or false accordingly.

$ pubid-nist report --csv
ID changed?,New PubID,Document ID,DOI changed?,New PubID-MR,DOI,Title
false,NBS BH 1,NBS BH 1,false,NBS.BH.1,NBS.BH.1,"Recommended minimum requirements for small dwelling construction : report of Building Code Committee July 20, 1922"
false,NBS BH 10,NBS BH 10,false,NBS.BH.10,NBS.BH.10,A city planning primer by the advisory committee on zoning appointed by Secretary Hoover
false,NBS BH 11,NBS BH 11,false,NBS.BH.11,NBS.BH.11,A standard city planning enabling act by the advisory committee on city planning and zoning appointed by secretary Hoover
...
true,NIST SP 260-214,NIST SP 260-14,false,NIST.SP.260-214,NIST.SP.260-214,"Analysis of Seafood Reference Materials: RM 8256, RM 8257, RM 8258 and RM 8259, Wild-Caught Coho Salmon (RM 8256), Aquacultured Coho Salmon (RM 8257), Wild-Caught Shrimp (RM 8258), Aquacultured Shrimp (RM 8259)"
false,NIST SP 260-14,NIST SP 260-14,false,NIST.SP.260-14,NIST.SP.260-14,"Analysis of Seafood Reference Materials: RM 8256, RM 8257, RM 8258 and RM 8259, Wild-Caught Coho Salmon (RM 8256), Aquacultured Coho Salmon (RM 8257), Wild-Caught Shrimp (RM 8258), Aquacultured Shrimp (RM 8259)"
true,NIST IR 8379,NISTIR 8379,false,NIST.IR.8379,NIST.IR.8379,Summary Report for the Virtual Workshop Addressing Public Comment on NIST Cybersecurity for IoT Guidance

The best part is that this CSV will work properly with spreadsheet editors like Excel and Pages. All you need is to export the CSV values to a CSV file, and open it in your favorite program.

$ pubid-nist report --csv > myreport.csv

It is easy to filter these columns in Microsoft Excel with the following steps:

  1. Open the CSV file in Excel

  2. Convert the header row into a filter row: first highlight the header row, then click on "Data > Filter"

  3. Filter the columns accordingly

PubID conversion report
Figure 1. PubID conversion report, showing mapping between legacy publication identifiers and NIST PubIDs

Now it’s easy to screen through the anomalies and surface the data issues!

Elements of the PubID

Publisher

Name Abbrev Short

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol.

NIST

National Bureau of Standards

Natl. Bur. Stand.

NBS

Series

Publisher Prefix Name Abbrev MR (with Publisher) Example

NIST

NIST AMS

Advanced Manufacturing Standard

Adv. Man. Ser

NIST.AMS

NIST AMS 200-2

NIST

NIST BSS

Building Science Series

Bldg. Sci. Ser.

NIST.BSS

NIST BSS 181

NBS

NBS BSS

Building Science Series

Bldg. Sci. Ser.

NBS.BSS

NBS BSS 94

NBS

NBS BMS

Building Material Structures Report

N/A

NBS.BMS

NBS BMS 140 Ed. 2

NBS

NBS BRPD-CRPL-D

Basic Radio Propagation Predictions Series

N/A

NBS.BRPD-CRPL-D

NBS BRPD-CRPL-D 209

NBS

NBS BH

Building and Housing Reports

N/A

NBS.BH

NBS BH 18

NBS

NBS CRPL

Central Radio Propagation Laboratory Reports

N/A

NBS.CRPL

NBS CRPL 6-3

NBS

NBS CRPL-F-A

CRPL Ionospheric Data

N/A

NBS.CRPL-F-A

NBS CRPL-F-A 245

NBS

NBS CRPL-F-B

CRPL Solar-Geophysical Data

N/A

NBS CRPL-F-B245

NBS CRPL-F-B245

NBS

NBS IP

CRPL Ionospheric Predictions

N/A

NBS.IP

NBS IP 25

NBS

NBS CIRC

Circulars

N/A

NBS.CIRC

NBS CIRC 460sup1962

NBS

NBS CIS

Consumer Information Series

N/A

NBS.CIS

NBS CIS 10

NBS

NBS CS

Commercial Standards

N/A

NBS.CS

NBS CS 113-51

NBS

NBS CSM

Commercial Standards Monthly

N/A

NBS.CSM

NBS CSM v9n10

NIST

FIPS PUB

Federal Information Processing Standards Publication

Federal Inf. Process. Stds.

NIST.FIPS

FIPS PUB 202

NIST

NISTGCR

Grant/Contract Reports

N/A

NIST.GCR

NIST GCR 17-917-45

NBS

NBS GCR

Grant/Contract Reports

N/A

NBS.GCR

NBS GCR 77-82

NIST

NIST HB

Handbook

Handb.

NIST.HB

NIST Handbook 150-872

NBS

NBS HB

Handbook

Handb.

NBS.HB

NBS Handbook 137

NBS

NBS HR

Hydraulic Research in the United States

N/A

NBS.HR

NBS HR 14A

NBS

NBS IRPL

Interservice Radio Propagation Laboratory

N/A

NBS.IRPL

NBS IRPL 27

NIST

ITL Bulletin

ITL Bulletin

N/A

NIST.ITLB

NIST ITL Bulletin August 2020

NIST

NIST LC

Letter Circular

N/A

NIST.LC

NIST LC 1136

NBS

NBS LC

Letter Circular

N/A

NBS.LC

NBS LC 1128

NIST

NIST MN

Monograph

Monogr.

NIST.MN

NIST Monograph 175

NBS

NBS MN

Monograph

Monogr.

NBS.MN

NIST Monograph 125, NIST Monograph 125, Supp. 1

NBS

NBS MP

Miscellaneous Publications

N/A

NBS.MP

NBS MP 260e1968

NIST

NIST NCSTAR

National Construction Safety Team Report

Natl. Constr. Tm. Act Rpt.

NIST.NCSTAR

NIST NCSTAR 1-1A

NIST

NIST NSRDS

National Standard Reference Data Series

Natl. Stand. Ret. Data Ser.

NIST.NSRDS

NIST NSRDS 100-2021

NBS

NSRDS-NBS

National Standard Reference Data Series

Natl. Stand. Ret. Data Ser.

NBS.NSRDS

NSRDS-NBS 1

NIST

NIST IR

Interagency or Internal Report

N/A

NIST.IR

NISTIR 8347

NBS

NBS IR

Interagency or Internal Report

N/A

NBS.IR

NBSIR 79-1776

NIST

NIST OWMWP

Office of Weights and Measures White Papers

N/A

NIST.OWMWP

NIST OWMWP 06-13-2018

NBS

NBS PC

Photographic Circulars

N/A

NBS.PC

NBS RPT 10394

NBS

NBS RPT

Reports

N/A

NBS.RPT

NBS PC 1

NIST

NIST PS

Voluntary Product Standards

Prod. Stand.

NIST.PS

NIST PS 20-20

NBS

NBS SIBS

Special Interior Ballistics Studies

N/A

NBS.SIBS

NBS SIBS 1

NBS

NBS PS

Voluntary Product Standards

Prod. Stand.

NBS.PS

NBS PS 15-69

NIST

NIST SP

Special Publication

Spec. Publ.

NIST.SP

NIST SP 800-115

NBS

NBS SP

Special Publication

Spec. Publ.

NBS.SP

NBS SP 500-137

NIST

NIST TN

Technical Note

Tech. Note

NIST.TN

NIST TN 2156

NBS

NBS TN

Technical Note

Tech. Note

NBS.TN

NBS TN 876

NBS

NBS TIBM

Technical Information on Building Materials

N/A

NBS.TIBM

NBS TIBM 61

NIST

NIST TTB

Technology Transfer Brief

N/A

NIST.TTB

NIST TTB 2

NIST

NIST DCI

Data Collection Instruments

Data Collect. Instr.

NIST.DCI

NIST DCI 002

NIST

NIST EAB

Economic Analysis Brief

N/A

NIST.EAB

NIST EAB 3

NIST

NIST Other

Other

Other

NIST.O

Report to the President

NIST

CSRC White Paper

Cybersecurity Resource Center White Paper

CSWP

NIST.CSWP

NIST.CSWP.04282021

NIST

CSRC Book

Cybersecurity Resource Center Book

CSRC Book

NIST.CSB

Executive Guide to Computer Security, Metrics to Security

NIST

CSRC Use Case

Cybersecurity Resource Center Use Case

CSRC Use Case

NIST.CSUC

Wireless Medical Infusion Pumps: Medical Device Security

NIST

CSRC Building Block

Cybersecurity Resource Center Building Block

CSRC Building Block

NIST.CSBB

Domain Name System-Based Security for Electronic Mail

NIST

JPCRD

Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data

J. Phys. & Chem. Ref. Data

JPCRD

(excluded from PubID scheme)

NIST

JRES

Journal of Research of NIST

J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stan.

NIST.JRES

(excluded from PubID scheme)

Stage

The stage code element only applies to non-final publications.

In most series, documents are only released as final publications, and therefore their PubIDs will not contain a stage code.

Only some series support stage codes, e.g. SP 800 and SP 1800.

Name Value

Initial Public Draft

IPD

Second Public Draft (to the Nth Public Draft)

2PD (…​ nPD)

Final Public Draft

FPD

Work-in-Progress Draft

WD

Preliminary Draft

PreD

Report number

The contents and pattern of the report number are dependent on the series.

Possible values:

  • {sequence number}

  • {subseries}-{sequence number}

  • {sequence number}-{volume}

  • {sequence number}-{edition}

  • {subseries}-{sequence number}-{edition}

  • etc.

A "Part" can also be indicated by an appended alphabetic character to the end.

Part

Name Abbrev and Short MR

Part

Pt.

pt

Volume

Vol.

v

Section

Sec.

sec

Supplement

Suppl.

sup

Index

Index

indx

Addendum

Add.

add (TBC with NIST)

Insert

Ins.

ins (TBC with NIST)

Errata

Err.

err (TBC with NIST)

Appendix

App.

app (TBC with NIST)

Edition

Name Abbrev and Short MR

Revision

Rev.

r

Edition

Ed.

e

Version

Ver.

ver

Translation

An ISO 639-2 code that represents a translated document from English.

If a document is translated from English, suffix the document with a 3-letter ISO 639-2 code within parentheses.

Raw values seen in legacy DOIs include:

Name Correct value MR Legacy values seen in DOI

Spanish

(ESP)

esp

es

Vietnamese

(VIE)

vie

viet

Portuguese

(POR)

por

port pt

Chinese

(ZHO)

zho

chi

Indonesian

(IND)

ind

id

Update

General

When a document is updated with an errata, the original edition may be reissued to include the errata.

These documents will display the text "includes updates as of…​".

In this case the document identifier will include the element "Update".

Name Abbrev and Short MR

Update

Upd.

u

Note
This is similar to the ISO/IEC "Amd." and "Cor." except that the NIST "Upd." is applied to the original document and (typically) does not exist separately.

Update number

A sequential integer numbering of the update counting from the original document.

The first update is numbered 1, and so forth.

Update year

The year last updated, shown as a suffix to the identifier.

  • "{identifier}:{update-year}"

PubID patterns

Presentation

Generally in this order:

  • No update: {series} {stage} {report number}{part}{edition}({translation})

  • With update: {series} {stage} {report number}{part}{edition}({translation})/{update} {update number}:{update year}

Full PubID

Samples:

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 199

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-27, Revision A

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-39 (Second Public Draft)

Abbreviated PubID

This form is used in the Authority section.

Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. {abbrev(series)} {reportnumber} {part | abbrev(volume)}, {abbrev(revision)}
  • abbrev(series) represent the abbreviation of the Series title

  • (Note: there is no {update-date})

Examples:

  • "Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 800-78-4"

  • "Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 800-116"

  • "Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 800-57 Part 1, Revision 4"

Short PubID

The "short form" is used to cite the documents within text.

It is used in these situations:

  1. Locality references. "In Section 3.2 of SP 800-187…" (the "SP 800-187" is a link).

    Note
    NIST pubs are composed of "Sections" not "Clauses"
  2. A generic document reference. "SP 800-53 describes…". This form does not specify a revision or update date.

  3. "All parts". "The SP 800-57 subseries describes key management…".

("NISTIR 6885 2003 Edition (February 2003)" is a poor indicator.)

The correct rule should be:

{abbrev(series)} {reportnumber} {abbrev(volume)} {abbrev(revision)} {edition, optional}
Note
For FIPS, reportnumber is the full FIPS number, including revision, e.g., 140-2.

Short form date:

  • Month YYYY

Examples:

  • NIST SP 800-53r4 (20152201) supersedes NIST SP 800-53r4 (20140115)

  • NIST SP 800 63A (December 2017) supersedes NIST SP 800-63A

  • NIST SP 800 57 Part 1 Revision 4 supersedes NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Revision 3 ("Rev." is also accepted, and converted to "Revision")

  • NIST SP 800 160 Volume 1 supersedes NIST SP 800-160 (20180103) ("Vol." is also accepted, and converted to "Volume")

  • Undated form "NIST SP 800 53r4"

Strip Revision and Date from title, only if the Revision and Date are unique for each document number. These are identified as "Rev. …​", "Revision …​." and " (Month YYYY)", whichever comes first.

Machine-readable PubID

Machine-readable syntax:

{publisher}.{series}.[{stage}.]{reportnumber}.{part}.{revision}.[{lang}.]{update-date}
{publisher}.{series}.[{stage}.]{reportnumber}.{part}.{revision}.[{lang}.][{update}]{update-date}

Generally, this rule should be able to uniquely identify an edition of a document.

  • {part}

    • Part

      • A "Part 1" document is encoded as "pt1";

      • When a letter part is indicated, e.g. "800-63A", we should keep it as part of the reportnumber (i.e., don’t indicate "pt").

    • Volumes

      • "Volume 1" is encoded as "v1";

  • {revision}

    • "Revision 1" is encoded as "r1"

    • If a superseding edition is a full revision, it will get the next Rev. #.

    • If a superseding edition is just an errata update, we use the update date from the title page ("includes updates as of …​") to uniquely identify this edition. Preferably in the -yyyymmdd format.

  • {update}

    • "Update 1" is encoded as "upd1"

Some examples:

  • NIST.SP.800-53r4-20152201 supersedes NIST.SP.800-53r4-20140115

  • NIST.SP.800-63A-20171201 supersedes NIST.SP.800-63A

  • NIST.SP.800-57pt1r4 supersedes NIST.SP.800-57pt1r3

  • NIST.SP.800-160v1 supersedes NIST.SP.800-160-20180103

  • NIST.IR.8204.upd1-2019 supersedes NIST.IR.8204

  • The undated form is NIST.SP.800-53r4

Examples of PubID

  • SP 800 series

    • NIST SP 800-40r3

    • NIST SP 800-45ver2

    • NIST SP 800-53r4/Upd 3:2015

    • NIST SP IPD 800-53r5

    • NIST SP 800-53Ar4/Upd 1:2014

    • NIST SP 800-60v1r1

    • NIST SP 800-57pt1r4

    • NIST SP 800-73-4/Upd 1:2016

    • NIST SP 2PD 800-188

  • SP 1800 series

    • NIST SP 2PD 1800-13B

    • NIST SP PreD 1800-19B

  • NIST IR series

    • NIST IR 8011v3

    • NIST IR 8204/Upd 1:2019

    • NIST IR 8115(spa)

  • Other NIST Series

    • NIST HB 130e2019

    • NIST SP 1041r1/Upd 1:2012

    • NIST NCSTAR 1-1Cv1