ISO 19650 is the international standard for managing information over the whole life cycle of a built asset. It grew out of the UK BIM standards and sets out how project information should be specified, produced, named, checked, shared and stored.
In day-to-day practice it shows up as information requirements in contracts, a common data environment with defined workflows, and consistent file naming and metadata so that anyone can find the current version of anything.
Its reputation as bureaucratic is unfair: the point is simply that information is an asset, and unmanaged information decays into risk. Projects that follow the discipline spend less time hunting for documents and hold stronger evidence when questions arise.
