This page provides access to draft standards and other documents related to the development of ISO 18876 Integration of industrial data for exchange, access, and sharing ("IIDEAS"). Note that drafts of parts of ISO 18876 are subject to ISO`s copyright restrictions.

A list of parts of ISO 18876 and a glossary of terms used in the standard are available here.

Overview of ISO 18876

ISO 18876 establishes an architecture, a methodology, and other specifications for the integration of industrial data for exchange, access, and sharing. The objective is to provide the following capabilities:

• integrating data from different sources, different models, perhaps written 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 and models between different modelling languages.

The components that support these capabilities include:

• integration models;
• methods for creating, extending, and updating integration models;
• methods for mapping between an integration model and an application model that falls within its scope;
• encoding and decoding of data and models with different formats, such as ISO 8876 (SGML), XML, ISO 10303-11 (EXPRESS), ISO 10303-21;
• methods for integrating data sets from different sources and different models including identification mechanisms;
• appropriate modelling and mapping languages.

Status

Part 1 of ISO 18876 passed its Committee Draft ballot in January 2002:

• ISO 18876-1 Architecture overview and description

Part 2 of ISO 18876 passed its Committee Draft ballot in February 2002:

• ISO 18876-2 Integration and mapping methodology

The target for both parts is ISO Technical Specification publication in Q2/Q3 2002.