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WHO data management

WHO Annex 5 — Guidance on Good Data and Record Management Practices

Document status what the publisher asserts

unknown

No status read is recorded for this entry — this record has not read a publisher surface for it, which is a fact about this record and not about the publisher. A status read is recorded for 7 of 132 tracked entries, 5 of which banked a passage.

Evidence state what this record holds

not a document — a body, committee or programme — there is no document here to retrieve, quote or date

This state is not one of the seven the published model names. It is recorded separately because the entry is not a document, and the seven all describe evidence about one.

Publisher: World Health Organization Last checked: no status recorded to verify Last read:
How this status is recorded
Recorded
unknown — no as-of date is recorded
Established by
A check by a person is asserted on this row and the verification log does not corroborate it, so no check is counted for this entry.
Evidence
In Current status on this page.
Published at
This record names no separate surface for the status. The primary source it holds is the primary source (opens in new tab). This entry's record is published in machine form at /api/v1/instruments.json.

Evidence ladder#

What this record holds for this entry, rung by rung, each mark derived from a field, a count or a stored reading. Rungs in the order the record acquires them, from what an entry is to what has been checked about it. The order is fixed; a rung’s position says nothing about any entry.

  1. held in part. identity an address that describes this document rather than a list it sits in The address this record holds is a listing covering several documents; no page describing this one on its own has been found.
  2. held. publisher the body that published it The publishing body is recorded as World Health Organization.
  3. held. jurisdiction the jurisdiction the publishing body belongs to The jurisdiction is recorded as International.
  4. held. type the class the document calls itself, quoted from its own title The document’s own title states a class, quoted on this page with the address it was read from.
  5. nothing held. current edition a statement of which edition or revision this record holds No reading of an edition or revision statement is recorded for this entry.
  6. nothing held. publication date a date the publisher states for this document No reading of a publication date is recorded for this entry.
  7. nothing held. lifecycle signal a stage, step or status wording read from a publisher surface No read of a publisher surface for a stage or status wording is recorded for this entry.
  8. nothing held. publisher notices official notices the publisher issued about this document No collection of publisher notices has succeeded: of 2 declared sources, 2 have never been attempted. The store holds nothing for any entry.
  9. held. observation history a dated series of what the publisher’s address returned This record holds 110 dated records for this entry, and every one of them is of the document it names.
  10. held in part. text prose retained from the retrieved bytes, against which a quotation can be checked Only the publisher’s metadata is retrieved for this entry; the document’s text is not.
  11. held. diff a comparison of two retrievals of this document 46 retrievals of this document differed from the one before it.
  12. read, and not there. verification a person’s check of this entry against the primary source A check is asserted on this row and the verification log does not corroborate it, so no check is counted for this entry.

△ held in part — part of it is held, or it is held under a limit the sentence states · ✓ held — this record holds it, and the sentence beside it names what from · — nothing held — no reading of this rung is recorded — nobody has looked, which is not the same as looking and finding nothing · ✗ read, and not there — a reading ran and did not find it — an absence this record measured

The first rung a reading ran on and did not find: verification — A check is asserted on this row and the verification log does not corroborate it, so no check is counted for this entry.

What the evidence states

  • The publishing body is recorded as World Health Organization.
  • The jurisdiction is recorded as International.
  • The document’s own title states a class, quoted on this page with the address it was read from.
  • This record holds 110 dated records for this entry, and every one of them is of the document it names.
  • 46 retrievals of this document differed from the one before it.

What it does not state

  • The address this record holds is a listing covering several documents; no page describing this one on its own has been found.
  • No reading of an edition or revision statement is recorded for this entry.
  • No reading of a publication date is recorded for this entry.
  • No read of a publisher surface for a stage or status wording is recorded for this entry.
  • No collection of publisher notices has succeeded: of 2 declared sources, 2 have never been attempted. The store holds nothing for any entry.
  • Only the publisher’s metadata is retrieved for this entry; the document’s text is not.
  • A check is asserted on this row and the verification log does not corroborate it, so no check is counted for this entry.

Coverage contract#

Each term states what this record does for this entry and what it does not, derived from the entry’s own fields and its own series. It is a record of coverage, not a finding about the document.

Observed cadence how often this record has reached this entry’s address
Every interval between consecutive days holding an observation is 1 day. The term this record declares for the entry is “monthly”.
Text: public, and retained whether the publisher’s text is public, and whether prose from it is kept here
This entry is a body or programme rather than a document, so there is no document text to be public or restricted. What this record fetches for it is the publisher’s own page about the body, and its series records what that address returned.
Hash what is digested for this entry, and of what
This entry is a body or programme rather than a document, so there is no document here to digest. Its series carries 110 digest(s), of the publisher page this record fetches for it.
Status verification which check this record undertakes for the published status, and which it holds
A status is a property of a document and this entry is a body or programme, so no status is put to a person for it. No check of either kind is recorded for this entry.
Lifecycle tracked which lifecycle facts this record follows for this entry
This record follows no lifecycle fact for this entry: no effective date, no dated event, no archived version, no publisher stage record and no detected revision is held. That is what has been recorded here, not a reading of what exists. 36 of 132 tracked entries carry at least one such fact.
Known limits the limits this entry’s own record declares
3 of the 8 limits this record can record are set on this entry, and each is listed below with the field it was read from.

Why this entry is tracked#

The test an entry is admitted under is published in full, with its negative limb and its worked examples, at the inclusion rule. What this record holds about THIS entry's admission is below, each line naming the store it was read from.

Inclusion-rule limb which of the four limbs was applied
— No field in this record names which limb an entry satisfies, so none is stated for this one. Membership was closed as a human judgment on 2026-08-11, and the four-limb test is applied by a person rather than by code. This entry’s own stated subject is not read as a limb: a title word standing in for a rule would be a classification this record authored.
Admission entry the dated act that added this entry
— No admission entry is recorded for this entry. 21 of 132 tracked entries carry one, so an absence here is ordinary rather than a gap peculiar to this entry.
Declared tier-1 list a recorded judgement that this belongs
This entry is not a member of the declared tier-1 list. That list names 37 identifiers, of which 35 resolve to one of the 132 tracked entries, so most of the corpus sits outside it and non-membership says nothing about this entry on its own.
Admissions boundary the jurisdictions this record adds from
This entry’s jurisdiction is International. It is inside the admissions boundary ruled on 2026-08-16, which names 4 jurisdictions — EU · US · UK · International — and which is one of the two admission tests this record enforces in code. The other is that a candidate carry the publisher’s own address: a mention is not a citation.

Filed core. For that label this archive undertakes to put an entry's status to a person. The label records what this archive undertakes for a class of entries. It states no finding about this one, and it is not a ranking.

Frozen. Only a listing exists; no page describing this document on its own has been found.

Frozen does not mean abandoned. This entry is still fetched and hashed every day and its observation series continues; it is excluded only from the verification queue and from the unverified count, because a status that cannot be established is not outstanding work.

Not yet verified. The status of this instrument has not been confirmed against its primary source. It is recorded as unknown rather than estimated. Consult the primary source (opens in new tab) directly.

Resolution: metadata only · no document resolved

What this archive can and cannot establish about this entry. The annex is published inside a WHO Expert Committee technical report rather than as a document of its own. Four candidate URLs were tried and returned 404, and the IRIS handles reached carry other reports in the series. Tracked against the IRIS repository, which lists many documents, so no document is hashed; the repository listing fetched for this row is hashed as part of the observation series.

Authority
World Health Organization
Jurisdiction
International
Status
unknown — read from a listing page, not from the document itself
Effective date
—
Last changed
—
Last verified
no status recorded to verify
Watch cadence
monthly
Crawlable
yes · renders server-side
Text licence
freely reproducible
Primary source
Primary source (opens in new tab) iris.who.int — a listing covering several documents; no page describing this one has been found, so no status is read from it

Current status#

No status has been confirmed against the primary source. Recorded as unknown rather than estimated.

What is not known#

The recorded source is a page listing several documents. No status is read from it, because a statement on that page may describe a different document.

The source was retrieved, but no phrase stating a regulatory status was found near a mention of this instrument.

Cite this authority guidance

Each format carries the permalink and the date this authority guidance was observed. The observation date is part of the citation: the underlying source may have changed since.

Plain text

GxPlex. WHO Annex 5 — Guidance on Good Data and Record Management Practices [authority guidance record]. Observed 19 September 2026. https://gxplex.com/r/who-annex5-data-management Primary source: https://iris.who.int/

BibTeX

@misc{gxplexrwhoannex5datamanagement,
  author       = {{GxPlex}},
  title        = {{WHO Annex 5 — Guidance on Good Data and Record Management Practices}},
  year         = {2026},
  note         = {authority guidance record, observed 19 September 2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://gxplex.com/r/who-annex5-data-management}},
  urldate      = {2026-09-19},
  url          = {https://iris.who.int/}
}

APA

GxPlex. (2026). WHO Annex 5 — Guidance on Good Data and Record Management Practices [authority guidance record]. Retrieved 19 September 2026, from https://gxplex.com/r/who-annex5-data-management

JSON

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  "temporalCoverage": "2026-09-19",
  "observation": {
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    "observedDate": "2026-09-19",
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observation.url addresses the single observation this citation rests on.

Every observation of this document is addressed and separately citable at the observation series.

Observation history#

Observed on 110 occasion(s) since 2026-07-31. 110 produced a content hash. 46 change(s) to the retrieved text have been detected since observation began.

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All 110 marks, one per observation, oldest first. · unchanged · ! content changed · ~ fetched but rendered client-side, no hash · × could not be fetched, no hash.

Every one of the 51 days from 2026-07-31 to 2026-09-19 holds an observation.

Each mark links to the single observation it stands for, at that observation’s own address. The whole series, with every address, is at /observations/who-annex5-data-management. Any two of its retained observations can be set side by side at /compare/who-annex5-data-management. The same evidence as a packet, with its refusals and its integrity reference, is at /packet/who-annex5-data-management.

Every observation in this series is published, untruncated, at /api/v1/observations.json.

First observed
2026-07-31
Last observed
2026-09-19 (HTTP 200)
Fetch method
direct
Current hash
4f86bb5f4164f584b03ada1c187f7412d5c0594a052f6cb32bdabd4b22598d0e
How this series is recorded
Recorded
observations: 110 · carrying a digest: 110 · changes detected: 46 · first observed: 2026-07-31
Method
resolution: metadata only · watch cadence: monthly · last fetch method: direct
Evidence
The most recent record is addressed at 2026-09-19·1.
Published at
/observations/who-annex5-data-management — every record of this row, with its address. /api/v1/series.jsonl — the same records for every row, one line each. Each observation is addressed by this row’s identifier, the date it was observed, and its sequence within that date — the same key /api/v1/series.jsonl publishes as `sequence`, counted in the order the store recorded them.

Source health#

Counts and dates over a stated window. No figure here is a mark out of a hundred, no cell is ordered against another, and none of it is a statement about the publisher: a day this record did not reach is a fact about this record’s reach.

Fetch outcomes how the requests in the window answered
110 of 110 fetch records in the 90 calendar days ending carry no error.
Last fetched the most recent record in the whole series
— the latest day this record holds (). The method recorded is direct. What that record returned is in Observation history above.
Address stability where the requests actually landed
97 record(s) in the window recorded the address that answered, across 1 distinct address(es). 13 further record(s) carry no answered address and say nothing either way. The most recent answered address is the one this entry declares.
Access posture what the publisher declares, and what the requests met
Declared: no AI-specific disallow · crawlable yes · renders server-side. Met: no request was recorded as refused, over 110 record(s) in the window. A refusal is what one request of this record met on one day; it is not a policy the publisher stated.
Expected and observed cadence the declared term, the days held, and the days holding none
The term this record declares for this entry is monthly. Over its own window, to , 51 of 51 calendar days hold at least one observation. None holds none. Every interval between consecutive days holding one is 1, counted in days. Both figures are stated and the difference between them is not adjudicated here.

Neighbourhood#

What sits around this entry, counted. Every figure below is drawn from a value already rendered elsewhere on this page; where a count has a list, the count is here and the list stays in the section holding its evidence.

The direct document, and the activity around it what this record’s observations of the document recorded inside a stated window, beside the official signals dated inside the same one
Each row is a window of calendar days ending , the day the source-health block above counts its own window to. Every column between the window and the official signals is drawn from the 110 observation(s) of the document this entry holds in total. An observation is counted here only where the class projection places it on the document this entry names.
Window Observations of the document Of those, carrying a digest Of those, carrying a change Direct document Official signals dated inside it
30 calendar days 45 45 26 changed in window 0 of 0
90 calendar days 110 110 46 changed in window 0 of 0
365 calendar days 110 110 46 changed in window 0 of 0

A window is marked changed where at least one observation of the document inside it recorded a change against the previous one; unchanged where the window holds at least one such observation, at least one of them carries a digest of the retrieved bytes, and none recorded a change; undigested where the window holds observations and none of them carries a digest, so no observation in it could be compared with another; and unmeasured where the window holds no observation at all. The word is shorthand for the three counts printed beside it and adds nothing to them. It is a statement about the window and never about the document outside it, which is why a window reaching back before the first observation says so underneath. A mark is derived from the observations a window holds and never from the days it spans; which days inside this entry’s own window hold none is stated by the coverage sentence in Observation history above.

The first observation of the document this entry names is . These windows reach back before it — 90 calendar days · 365 calendar days — so part of the span each names was never watched, and a window with no change inside it says nothing about the days before that first observation.

changed in window — at least one observation of the document inside this window recorded a change against the observation before it

No word is attached to the signal count beside it, and none will be. Any word for the size of a count needs either a threshold this record would have authored or a comparison against other entries that would rank the sources against one another; the count and its window are the whole claim. The document column beside it carries a word only because the rule reaching it is printed underneath and can be checked against the counts it stands for.

The last column holds no member on this entry. The zero it holds is named under “Around it” below.

Around it official signals naming this entry, by the class their publisher stated
— The signal store holds no record for any entry, so nothing here is an absence measured on this one. The store’s own state is no source attempted, and what that state means for every count drawn from the store is stated at the signals index.
Related sources other entries reachable from this one by a relation a publisher states
— This record publishes no relation from or to this entry. A relation is published only where a publisher states it, so this is the absence of a statement this record has read and not a claim that none exists.
Related standards which of those entries call themselves a standard, in their own publisher’s word
— No published relation from this entry reaches an entry this record tracks, so there is nothing to place on this axis. That is a statement about what this record can read, not about what exists.
Topics the controlled identifiers this entry carries, and the voice each one is in
— This entry carries no topic identifier: its own record names no topic, and no subject term this archive matched is stated about it.
Before, now and next where the record’s day sits among the publisher-dated facts this entry holds
— This entry holds no publisher-dated lifecycle fact, so no position can be derived. What is absent is a dated statement this record has read.

Next holds the publisher-dated facts this record already carries that fall after the day this record calls today — a stated effective date, a consultation close. Nothing is projected and no step is inferred from a lifecycle: where a publisher has stated no further date, the cell says so, and what is absent is a statement rather than a future.

SHA-256: 4f86bb5f4164f584b03ada1c187f7412d5c0594a052f6cb32bdabd4b22598d0e This digest is a leaf of the integrity root, and the command that recomputes it is published at /how.

Subject and class (as stated)

The words this document uses about itself, matched verbatim against its own title. Not a statement of scope, and not a judgment about which organisations or products fall under it: each value quotes the span it was read from and links to where that span was read.

This document's title states no subject term this archive matches. That is a fact about the reading, not a subject it lacks — it is filed under title states no subject.

Sources#

Listed primary first, then the further addresses this record holds for this entry, then the route it was found by, then dated third-party copies. Repeated URLs appear once, at their first position.