ISO 15926

This ISO standard addresses data integration, sharing, exchange, and hand-over between computer systems.
Its purpose is to facilitate integration of data to support the lifecycle activities and processes of production facilities by developping a generic data model and reference data library for process plants.
 
It currently (may 2009) includes the following parts:

• Part 3: Reference data for geometry and topology
  • specifies geometric and topological concepts, enabling the recording of geometric and topological data using ISO 15926-2 and in a way consistent with first order logic.
  • specifies concepts related to mesh topology and functions defined with respect to meshes, enabling the recording of mesh topology data and the representation of property distributions.

• Part 1: Overview and fundamental principles
  • Introduction, information concerning engineering, construction and operation of production facilities is created, used and modified by many different organizations throughout a facility's lifetime. 
• Part 2: Data model - Data Model.
  • a generic 4D model that can support all disciplines, supply chain company types and life cycle stages, regarding information about functional requirements, physical solutions, types of objects and individual objects as well as activities.
• Part 4: Initial reference data
  • defines the initial set of reference data for use with the ISO 15926 and ISO 10303-221 industrial data standards
• Part 7: Implementation methods for the integration of distributed systems -- Template methodology (draft)
  • defining an implementation architecture that is based on the W3C Recommendations for the Semantic Web.
• Part 8: Implementation methods for the integration of distributed systems -- OWL representation (draft)
• Part 9: Implementation methods for the integration of distributed systems -- Facade implementation (draft)
• Part 10: Implementation methods for the integration of distributed systems -- Abstract test methods (draft)