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Industry Prepares for the Next Jump in Internet Technology
The ECCMA conference in Hershey, PA starts October 25th 2006 and will focus on ISO standards that are set to change supply chain management and dramatically increase the speed and accuracy of web search engines. The standards are based on a little known $3 billion government investment in descriptive technology often described as the DNA of logistics.
ECCMA, DLIS and representatives of NATO AC/135 have been working with ISO Technical Committee 184, Subcommittee 4 (ISO TC 184/SC 4) on ISO 22745, a standard for the maintenance and application of open technical dictionaries as metadata registries. Coded metadata represents the building blocks needed to create unambiguous language independent descriptions and is the key to the cataloging system. The group has also been working on ISO 8000, a new standard for data quality that address the issues of registered metadata and data provenance, critical aspects to long term data retention.
It has been five years since the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) and the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) first met at an ISO meeting in San Francisco. They subsequently agreed to work together on the conversion of the Federal Cataloging System into an open international standard. In 2004 the NATO Allied Committee 135 (AC/135) entered into an agreement with ECCMA to leverage the expertise and support from the international NATO codification community.
ISO TC 184/SC 4 was chosen by the group as it is responsible for the key international standards that lie hidden at the heart of industrial design and manufacturing systems. These standards protect vital industrial information by providing a neutral format for the exchange of data between competing software applications.
ECCMA member companies expect both ISO 22745 and ISO 8000 to have a rapid impact on electronic commerce and supply chain management. The conference will feature workshops on implementing the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary (eOTD) and the associated XML schemas for cataloging templates and encoded data exchange.
The conference will bring together international product cataloging experts, catalog users from government and industry, leading cataloging application and service providers as well as members of NATO and ISO experts and delegates from over thirty countries. Given the synergy between the groups it will be a truly unique event and ECCMA is honored to host the 50th meeting of ISO TC 184/SC 4 at its annual meeting in Hershey. 15.09.2006, Peter Benson, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE CODE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
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