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Implementations of the OASIS technical specification, material related to them, and other, related or similar activities are listed here. (Any omissions are unintentional; if you believe something should be added, please say so!)
XML.org, an initiative within OASIS, intends to implement a registry and repository for SGML- and XML-related entities.
The United States National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is constructing a registry and repository for IMS. IMS is a global coalition of academic, commercial and government organizations, working together to define the Internet architecture for learning. The repository is to contain material in a wide variety of formats (not solely XML), and the registration metadata includes domain-specific information. NIST intends to use the OASIS specification, and Len Gallagher of NIST has drawn up a preliminary draft of our efforts ... giving a relational database design for capturing the metadata specified by OASIS for a registered data element. By parsing a submittal package we hope to be able to populate the database so that it is suitable for ad hoc query. A copy of that design is provided here, and a diagram showing a Relational Rose UML diagram for a portion of the OASIS RegRep specification. It's at a slightly higher level of abstraction than our relational diagrams and thus may give a clearer picture of the important concepts.
NIST has kindly contributed a paper on Conformance Testing, its specification, and its utility. The TC should study this contribution when determining what sort of conformance language it desires to provide, and what sort of conformance testing it deems appropriate during and after development of the Technical Specification.
Electronic Business XML is the name of ebXML is an international initiative established by UN/CEFACT [the trade organ of the United Nations, responsible for the EDIFACT standard] and OASIS. The aim is to standardize XML business specifications. EBXML has formed a Registry and Repository Project Team, the work of which has just begun as of yearend. The Project Team has determined to use ISO/IEC 11179 and is examining the OASIS technical specification.
The United States Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) manages a software initiative call the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) Common Operating Environment (COE). DII COE has a registry of XML elements used to provide common information and to control development of new elements. It predates the OASIS effort and does not actually employ ISO/IEC 11179, but is similar in several ways (control not being one of them) to what the OASIS Registry and Repository Technical Committee is trying to enable. It can be thought of as prototyping an ISO/IEC 11179 registry for XML in XML.
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