If you really like standardization read a few ISO standards that touch domains in which you publish information.
Funny you should mention that. Laboratory courses in physics at my uni are known for enforcing arbitrary seeming rules where the TAs are sometimes unable to agree on what exactly those rules are. This is despite the fact that there are standards published by the national standards organisation concerning how to write down experimental data and how to properly deal with measurement errors. Which I can’t acces for free through my uni.
Funny you should mention that. Laboratory courses in physics at my uni are known for enforcing arbitrary seeming rules where the TAs are sometimes unable to agree on what exactly those rules are. This is despite the fact that there are standards published by the national standards organisation concerning how to write down experimental data and how to properly deal with measurement errors. Which I can’t acces for free through my uni.
Standards often are arbitrary and not only seem to be that way.
But at least they are formalised and written down. In that damned course they are not.