A public part of my work for Shell is my involvement in standards
development for the management of engineering information, in
particular for the process industries. The bodies I am or have
been involved in include:
 | PISTEP: the UK Process Industries
STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data) consortium;
| POSC/Caesar: Norwegian Oil and
Gas consortium;
| EPISTLE: the European Process
Industries STEP Consortium;
| ISO TC184/SC4 - Industrial Data:
the ISO sub-committee that develops the STEP family of standards
(STEP - STandard for the Exchange of Product model data).
| BSI AMT/4: the British Standards
Institute committee that provides the UK position on standards
developed in ISO TC184/SC4.
| IEEE-SUO: the Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers Standard Upper Ontology Working Group.
| KnoW: Knowledge on the Web
| ONTOLOG: an international and virtual
Community of Practice in the field of formal ontology. |
| IDEAS Group: the International
Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification
for exchange |
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Below I say something about each of these groups and my involvement
in them.
PISTEP is the UK Process Industries STEP consortium. PISTEP
is a part of POSC Caesar and a member consortium of EPISTLE.
I am one of the co-managers of PISTEP.
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POSC Caesar is a Norwegian based consortium focussed on bringing
a product model for life-cycle information to the process industry.
PISTEP is a member of POSC/Caesar
and POSC/Caesar is a member consortium of EPISTLE.
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EPISTLE is the European Process Industries STEP Technical
Liaison Executive. It is a collaboration of consortia to develop
standards for the integration and exchange of process plant data.
The current participating consortia are PISTEP,
POSC/Caesar, and USPI-NL.
Key deliverables from EPISTLE are:
| the EPISTLE Core Model, a generic data model for the process
industries that is being standardised formally as ISO15926-2;
| the EPISTLE Reference Data Library, a standard set of classes,
properties and specifications for the process industries - currently
some 17,500 are being prepared for publication;
| EPISTLE Templates, an initiative is just starting to develop
specific templates for specific purposes.
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EPISTLE is an "A" Liaison to ISO TC184/SC4.
I was the founding chairman of EPISTLE and am currently a
member of the management committee and of the data modelling
team.
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ISO TC184/SC4 is the ISO subcommittee responsible for developing
standards for engineering data.
I participate in the development of:
| ISO 10303-221 Process plant functional and schematic data;
| ISO
15926 Integration of life-cycle data for oil and gas production
facilities;
| ISO
18876 Integration of Industrial Data for Exchange Access
and Sharing (IIDEAS).
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The UK position on SC4 standards is developed by the British
Standards Institute through committee AMT/4.
I am a member of AMT/4, and have been a frequent head of the
UK delegation.
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The IEEE Standard Upper Ontology Working Group was established
in 2000. The objective of the group is to develop a standard
that will specify the semantics of a general-purpose upper level
ontology. An ontology is a set of terms and formal definitions.
This will be limited to the upper level, which provides definition
for general-purpose terms and provides a structure for compliant
lower level domain ontologies. It is estimated to contain between
1000 and 2500 terms plus roughly ten definitional statements
for each term. Is intended to provide the foundation for ontologies
of much larger size and more specific scope.
I have been an active participant in this working group and
am Project Leader for two of the Work Programmes:
| To develop a methodology
for the development of standards deliverables within the Standard
Upper Ontology Workgroup.
| To develop a 4
dimensional ontology and include it as a component within
the Information Flow Framework.
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KnoW
Knowledge on the Web is a collaborative initiative bringing
together industrial, commercial, governmental and not-for-profit
organizations, consultants, implementers, academics and software
vendors, with the intent of making rapid and tangible progress
towards enabling the sharing and exchange of knowledge between
people, organisations and systems using the technology
of the Web.
I was Co-Chairman of the KnoW Board.
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ONTOLOG
(a.k.a. "Ontolog Forum")
ONTOLOG is an open, international, virtual community
of practice devoted to advancing the field of ontological engineering
and semantic technologies, and advocating their adoption into mainstream
applications and international standards.
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