Information Resource Dictionary System: An Integration Mechanism for Product Data Exchange Specification

摘要

With sophisticated and ever evolving technologies, users are faced with the need to exchange information across diverse and dissimilar systems. At the same time the users must maintain the various contexts within their organization and functional responsibility. The integration of systems as well as the integration of information within the technological heterogeneity is the 'core' of product data exchange specification. The need to organize the integration and exchange of the information has been recognized. A way to store and manage all the components of PDES development in one logical, standard, dictionary system is the cornerstone for automation and reusability in the future. The complexity of the integration task, the validation process, the numerous topical and application models, and the necessary documentation, require the use of a dictionary tool to manage and track the model integration stage of the PDES life cycle. The Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS) standard being developed by ANSI and NIST can meet the need. The IRDS can be used to identify and control all of the 'pieces' that make up PDES and to evaluate the effect of needed changes that will occur as the PDES standard emerges.