ROTOCON - Regulations & Standards Library (Structure)

About this map

This is the Regulations & Standards Library for ROTOCON — an Obsidian knowledge vault of the legal and normative sources behind the company's quality management and product conformity across the EU, USA, South Africa and Asia. The diagram above is a live view of the vault: 52 pages connected by 211 cross-references.

How to read the diagram

Each dot is a page (a standard, regulation, body, concept or note).
Each line is a wikilink — a real cross-reference between two pages.
Colour = section (see the table below); dot size = how connected a page is.
The graph floats gently and continuously so structure stays readable.
Drag a dot to reposition it · click a dot to focus it and its neighbours (others fade, its links turn red) · scroll to zoom · drag the empty canvas to pan.
Shuffle re-lays-out the graph; Pause freezes the motion.

Sections

Section	Pages	What it holds
bodies	9	Organizations: standards publishers (ISO, DIN, DIN Media), the German accreditation body (DAkkS), certification bodies (TÜV, DQS), chambers (IHK), and per-region regulators/labs (UL, NRCS).
concepts	10	Cross-cutting ideas that connect the library: CE marking and its per-market equivalents (NRTL Listing, CCC, NRCS LOA), conformity assessment, accreditation, the QMS and the PDCA cycle.
meta	2	Navigation and housekeeping: the Index, the Dataview Dashboard, and Collected Sources (links to the legally-collected corpus in data/raw).
questions	1	Open questions to resolve, e.g. which paid standards Rotocon must hold licences for.
regulations	8	Binding law: EU regulations and decisions (Machinery Regulation, 765/2008, 768/2008, PPE), German law (ProdSG), and data protection (GDPR / POPIA).
standards	19	International (ISO) and European (EN) standards — the quality requirements (ISO 9001 family, ISO/IEC 17021-1) and the machine-safety norms applied to Rotocon's presses (EN 1010, EN 60204-1, EN ISO 12100) plus US equivalents (NFPA 79, ANSI B65).

Legal-by-design

Paid standards (ISO, DIN, EN) are stored as metadata only — title, edition, and an official purchase_url — never their copyrighted full text. Freely available sources (EU legislation via EUR-Lex, German law, public guidance) are collected in data/raw/ and linked from the Collected Sources page.

Editing & keeping it current

Open the project folder as a vault in Obsidian (enable the Dataview plugin for the Dashboard). This page is regenerated from the vault with python scripts/build_wiki_html.py, so it always reflects the current pages and links.