PD ISO/TS 18876-1:2003

Industrial automation systems and integration. Integration of industrial data for exchange, access and sharing. Architecture overview and description | Status: Under review, Current

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:

• — integrating data which may be:
  • — from different sources or different contexts,
  • — described by different models, or
  • — defined in different modelling languages;
• — sharing data among applications through systems integration architectures;
• — resolving conflict between models developed with different objectives;
• — translating data between different encodings;
• — translating models between different modelling languages.

The following are within the scope of ISO 18876:

• — integration models;
• — methods for creating, extending, and updating integrationmodels;
• — methods for creating a mapping specification to map data instances between an integrationmodel and an application model that falls within its scope;
• — 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];
• — methods for consolidating data sets from different sources and different models;
• — modelling and mapping specification languages.

The following is within the scope of this part of ISO 18876:

• — the architecture and an outline of the methodology.

The following are outside the scope of this part of ISO 18876:

• — integration models;
• — detailed specifications of the methodology;

  NOTE Such specifications can be found in other parts of ISO 18876 or in other standards.

• — translating data between different encodings;
• — encoding and decoding of data and models with different formats;
• — modelling and mapping specification languages.