Community Profile for NIST/MSID (HUZ)
By / Date: SteveRay / 2005.11.9
Last Updated: (HS5)
- Community (name): National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) / Manufacturing Systems Integration Division (MSID) (HS6)
- Date Established: 1981 (HS7)
- Key Stakeholders: U.S. Manufacturers, U.S. Healthcare sector, U.S. Congress (HS8)
- Constituency: Employees at NIST, plus many collaborators from industry, consortia, standards bodies and universities throughout the world (HS9)
- Domain: Measurements & Standards supporting interoperability in the manufacturing sector, plus other sectors where there is easy transfer of expertise and results (HSA)
- Mission / Charter: To promote economic growth by working with industry to develop and apply interoperability measurements and standards for software used in all aspects of manufacturing. (HSB)
- With respect to Ontology work (esp. eGov-related work), the community's: (HSC)
- Medium Term Goal: advance the science and art of ontological engineering and semantic technologies; moving them into the mainstream through adoption by standards bodies (HSD)
- Short Term Goal: provide measurement (testing) tools for standards validation, conformance testing, and interoperability testing. (HSE)
- Deliverables within the next 6 months: A continuing series of testing tools - see http://www.mel.nist.gov/msid/msidprod.htm (HSF)
- Key Differentiation (with the other communities presenting today): As a government agency, we provide a measurement and standards infrastructure that brings benefit to a wide set of industry sectors (HSG)
- What we can bring to the table to foster collaboration with other communities here today: All of our work resides in the public domain. We are here to help the economy grow through increased productivity and efficiencies by means of a technology standards infrastructure that supports interoperability (HSH)
- Additional Remarks: (HSI)
- Contact: (HSJ)
