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Introduction to ''An Introduction to ISO 15926''
- ISO 15926 is Like a Babel Fish
- ISO 15926 is Like HTML
- ISO 15926 is Like English on Your Cell Phone
- An Introduction to ISO 15926
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What is ISO 15926...
- How ISO 15926 Works
- A Bit of History
- Long Tail
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Areas of Current Work...
- Getting Started With ISO 15926
- Other ISO 15926 Resources
- About the Author
- ISO15926Primer_DiagnosticPage
Metaphor: Web Browsers
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ISO 15926 is like HTML
If everyone involved in Plant Design and Operations were to use ISO 15926 to exchage information about plant objects, it would be similar to the way everyone now uses HTML to code their web pages.
For instance, if you want to look at the web page of a pump manufacturer, you don't need to know anything beyond the website address of the company. When your browser connects to the website it assumes that what it finds will be encoded in HyperText? Markup Langugage, or HTML. Of course, it will be, if the manufacturer wants to get any business through the web page because HTML is the standard format of the World Wide Web.
And it doesn't matter which browser you use. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Netscape, all are written to understand HTML.
Imagine the hassle if you first had to contact the company and ask for the encoding format, then instruct your IT folks to write a translator program before you could access the website? Of course you wouldn't do it. And of course the company would not make a web page in the first place because no one would else would use it either.
Similarities and Differences Between the Metaphor and ISO 15926
Many websites today are actually written in HTML so the metaphor implies that a large proportion of plant information will actually be written in ISO 15926. This is probably not going to be the case. Most companies will maintain their plant information in whatever format they currently use and write an interpreter to render the information in 15926 format when a web browser asks for it.
In this regard, ISO 15926 is more like the case today where a database is exposed to the World Wide Web. When a user queries the database (via her web browser), a program dynamically searches the database and renders the results in HTML "on the fly".