1 Scope
This Technical Specification establishes an architecture, a methodology, and other
specifications for integrating industrial data for exchange, access, and sharing. The following activities are supported:
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— integrating data which may be:
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— from different sources or different contexts,
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— described by different models, or
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— defined in different modelling languages;
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— sharing data among applications through systems integration architectures;
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— resolving conflict between models developed with different objectives;
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— translating data between different encodings;
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— translating models between different modelling languages.
The following are within the scope of ISO 18876:
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— integration models;
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— methods for creating, extending, and updating integrationmodels;
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— methods for creating a mapping specification to map data instances between an integrationmodel and an application model that falls within its scope;
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— encoding and decoding of data and models with different formats, such as SGML [1], XML [7], EXPRESS [3], UML [6] and ISO 10303‑21[4];
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— methods for consolidating data sets from different sources and different models;
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— modelling and mapping specification languages.
The following is within the scope of this part of ISO 18876:
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— the architecture and an outline of the methodology.
The following are outside the scope of this part of ISO 18876:
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— integration models;
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— detailed specifications of the methodology;
NOTE Such specifications can be found in other parts of ISO 18876 or in other standards.
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— translating data between different encodings;
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— encoding and decoding of data and models with different formats;
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— modelling and mapping specification languages.