NAVSEA Long Term Data Retention of Weapon System Information FY2010Final Report

["Lubell, Joshua" <lubell@nist.gov>]

Of interest to the TC as a case study showing the benefits of the 
DEX/RDL approach to standards development.

The attached report documents the results of a multi-year US Navy 
project funded by the National Archives Records Administration (NARA). 
The main conclusion is as follows:

"... the most viable approach for the long term data retention for ships 
data involves the use of ISO standard 10303, the Standard for the 
Exchange of Product Model data. And although a great deal of time and 
effort was invested by the Naval Sea Systems Command to develop 
application protocols specifically for the marine industry, a better 
approach involves the use of the more general purpose application 
protocols, Data Exchange Specifications (DEX), and Reference Data 
Libraries (RDL) to represent geometry, product structure, and non 
graphical attributes."

-- 
Josh Lubell, NIST
Manufacturing Systems Integration Division
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8263
Gaithersburg MD 20899-8263 USA
Phone: 1-301-975-3563, Email: lubell@nist.gov

NSWCCD20TR2010-06.pdf