What is ISO/IEC 19763-3 about?
ISO/IEC 19763-3 is an international standard on data management and interchange which helps to minimize potential errors by establishing processes and policies for usage in decision making at organizations. ISO/IEC 19763-3 is the third part of the multi-series that specifies the metamodel that provides a facility to register administrative and evolution information related to ontologies.
The metamodel is intended to promote interoperability among application systems, by providing administrative and evolution information related to ontologies, accompanied by standardized ontology repositories that register ontologies themselves in specific languages.
ISO/IEC 19763-3 does not specify the metamodels of ontologies expressed in specific languages and the mappings among them.
Who is ISO/IEC 19763-3?
ISO/IEC 19763-3 on information technology is relevant to:
- IT industry
- Data processing service providers
- Developers
Why should you use ISO/IEC 19763-3?
A metamodel is a data model for metadata, which describes the core metadata objects, along with their relationships and associated business rules. In this regard, ISO/IEC 19763-3 provides a generic framework for registering administrative and evolution information related to ontologies.
ISO/IEC 19763-3 is helpful as it facilitates conceptual modelling, defines constructs of the conceptual modelling languages, specifies constraints on the use of constructs, and encodes the similarities of different models.
To promote ontology-based interoperability, in addition to them, a generic framework for registering administrative and evolution information related to ontologies, independent of languages, is necessary. ISO/IEC 19763-3 addresses these parameters, adoption of which can improve overall business performance.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS ISO/IEC 19763-3:2020 replaces the second edition (ISO/IEC 19763-3:2010), which has been technically revised. The main changes compared to the previous edition are as follows:
- No direct inheritance from Administered Item of ISO/IEC 11179-3 in 5.2 and 5.4 to align with ISO/IEC 19763-10
- Clarification in 5.4 that "Ontology Language", "Ontology Whole", "Ontology Component" and "Ontology_Atomic_Construct" is inherited from "Modelling Language", "Model" or "Model element" of ISO/IEC 19763-10
- Changes of attribute and reference names in 5.4 and 5.5 to align with ISO/IEC 19763-10
- Editorial changes throughout the document to fully align with ISO/IEC Directives Part 2