All activities aimed at working structurally on, making available and keeping a standard or set of standards which always fits the current needs of the parties concerned. A distinction can be made between development and management. The management of standards concerns making available and updating of existing standards on the basis of new preferences and requirements without actual functional expansion. This includes, therefore, distributing the standard through a website, for example, providing support, collecting preferences and requirements and issuing new versions. The development of standards relates to the development of a standard as a solution for a new functional area. This may mean that on the basis of this development, the existing standard is expanded or a new standard is created. Management and development, in the broad sense, for a standard also includes topics like adoption and certification. The development and management of standards differs from the development and management of other products such as platforms and software. A platform is a combination of information, system, organization and interface for the purpose of service. Both internally within the platform and on the interface of the platform with the world beyond, various types of standards may be used including semantic standards. This relationship between a standard and platform applies equally between a standard and software. Standards have different users and other challenges such as harmonizing with communities and international standards. This doesn’t mean that the semantic standardization discipline cannot learn from other disciplines such as the world of software. Models from these disciplines may be usable. In particular, the ASL ( Van der Pols & Backer, 2006 ) and BiSL framework ( Van der Pols & Backer, 2007 ) for functional management can be used to some extent.
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BOMOS: Management and Development Model for Open Standards
Erwin Folmer (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Copyright: © 2012
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0146-8.ch006
Abstract
E-Business standards, or standards for interoperability, are developed outside the traditional standard development organizations, often within industry specific domain organizations. These organizations need some guidance in how to develop and manage standards for their specific domain in order to achieve long lasting standards that actually achieve interoperability between organizations. The Dutch government, together with the standards community, decided to publish a tool called BOMOS for giving guidance to the management and development of open standards. BOMOS is not profoundly grounded on scientific evidence, but it builds on the best practices already used in domain standardization. This chapter will present two highlights of BOMOS: the activity model for management of standardization, and a development approach for standards.