Getting Started with ISO 15926

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Contents

1. Abstract
2. Who Should Consider Implementing ISO 15926
   1. Opportunities for Personal Involvement
3. Next

Abstract

Implementing ISO 15926 at the introductory end is relatively simple, with proven tools. Many organizations are realizing business benefits today. At the top end, ISO 15926 is evolving quickly, with new tools and implementation methods being developed, more or less, as we speak. This section proposes ideas for analyzing the information interoperability needs at your organization and planning the implementation of ISO 15926.

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The purpose of this section is to give you a roadmap for implementing ISO 15926 at your organization. Of necessity, the roadmap will not be a single direct route to a single end-point. This means that you can start with limited goals, say, to map two interacting applications together using ISO 15926 part 4 (15926-4). Later on you can work up to a full 15926-9 façade.

So this section will not be like a route map from your travel agent showing the shortest route from your house to the beach. Instead it will be more like a roadmap of the entire countryside. For instance, if you lived in London, England and wanted to go the beach at Cannes, an easy way would be to take the Eurostar to the Gare de Nord train station in Paris, transfer to the Gare de Lyon, then take the train à grande vitesse (TGV) to Cannes.

On the other hand, if you channeled Rowan Atkinson and took a side road you would have a much more interesting journey.

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Figure 1 - A More Interesting Route to the Beach

Who Should Consider Implementing ISO 15926

ISO 15926 is a way to transfer information between two computer systems. Thus, it is the developers of the systems that need to implement ISO 15926. If your organization is a software developer, it is an obvious candidate. But even if your organization puchases software, it may still be a candidate. Look at the computer systems your organization uses. If any of the following three cases exists, you are a candidate for ISO 15926:

• You develop software that obtains input from, and/or sends output to, datbases or other computer systems.

• You capture information from a computer system and store it. The computer system might be commercial software, or might be developed in-house.

• You wish to create a new means of moving information directly between computer systems.

Opportunities for Personal Involvement

If you want to get involved with ISO 15926, the ideal situation is that you work for an organization that wishes to implement the standard. But even if you do not work for such an organization there are still opportunities to learn more. For instance, your organization may wish to implement ISO 15926 in the future and you wish to prepare yourself to take a significant role.

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• Implementing ISO 15926 in an Organization?

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