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* What is a standard? {nid 1VAJ} |
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* What is a standard? {nid 1VB8} |
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A standard is nothing more than an agreement across a particular community of interest, to achieve mutual benefit, based on the best available knowledge and technology. Implementation is voluntary, unless mandated by legal or commercial constraints. {nid 1VB1} |
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* Standard fundamentals {nid 1VAK} |
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* Standards opportunities {nid 1VAK} ** There are a number of classes of standard that should be able to benefit from ontologies {nid 1VB2} *** Many standards comprise lists of permissible values and their explanation, such as lists of country codes, or currency codes. We need to build on such reference data. {nid 1VB3} *** A large proportion of the world's standards provide the definition of characteristics of products, such as a bolt with permissible lengths, diameters, materials and strength. From an information point of view, this covers two aspects - the relationship of the set of characteristics to the product, and the permissible values of those characteristics. Such a structure can be represented in a variety of ways - how can ontology help? {nid 1VB4} *** Information models define entities, by their attributes and relationships and rules, which can be instantiated into representations of objects by applying values to the attributes of the entities. Typically these include product models {nid 1VB5} *** Management standards define processes and compliance requirements - I have no idea how these can benefit from ontology. {nid 1VB6} ** The old joke about "the great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from" is a sad consequence of people generating documents without looking at what is already available. However, the large number of standards makes that search more difficult. We need to maintain a way of identifying common concepts and relationships between standards. {nid 1VB7} |