Standards for peer review and expert review

We subscribe to ASTM F 2575 (“Standard Guide for Quality Assurance in Translation”) for general guidelines on peer review and expert review of translations.

However, since the guidelines in this standard are very general, we're developing an Internal Policy for Peer Review and Expert Review.

The chapter outline for this document is as follows:

Introduction

General considerations

• Independence, integrity and objectivity
• Competence
• Due professional care
• Administration of reviews

Organization of the review team

Qualifications for service as a reviewer

• General
• Peer reviewers
• Expert reviewers

Performing peer reviews

• Objectives
• Peer review risk
• Basic requirements
• Scope of the review
• Understanding the quality assurance system
• Letters of comments on peer reviews
• Letters of response to comments
• Final report

Performing expert reviews

• Objectives
• Expert review risk
• Basic requirements
• Scope of the review
• Understanding the quality assurance system
• Letters of comments on expert reviews
• Letters of response to comments
• Final report

Reporting on peer and expert reviews

• Reporting on peer reviews
• Reporting on expert reviews

Effective date

The scheduled delivery date for this publication is June 2010.