SMART Terminology

Ronald TseApril 13th 2021

We facilitate interoperable semantics from creation to use

this is what we do!

Information management

Information creation

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Information use

Information dissemination

modeling

standardization

publication

cybersecurity

compliance

You might have used something we worked on…

Importance of concepts in our work

• Standards authoring suite– Metanorma open source, model-based

standards– terminology standards, e.g. ISO 34000

• Concept registers– Geolexica serves the online ISO/TC

211 MLGT and the OSGeo Glossary• Concept editor

– Glossarist/Paneron is used for managing the ISO/TC 211 MLGT

• => leads to SMART!

• Standards Machine Accessible, Readable and Transferrable

• “class” of standards: terminology, registry, data models, source code/schemas, requirements

SMART standards

data models / data items

provenance

standardization lifecycle

relationships

implementation schemas

• covering:– models, instance data– model-based content:

annotations, guidance…– semantic content

• worked with SMART since inception– ISO SMART standards and pilots– IEC SDB pilots

paneron

ISO SMART Terminology Pilot

• “ISO/TC 211 Multi-Lingual Glossary of Terms/Geolexica” approved by TMB

• Intended to develop SMART terminology knowledge and best practices for other ISO/IEC TCs

• Cover both ”terminology” and “registry” classes

SMART Terminology Pilot covers governance and data requirements

Processes• How should a SMART terminology

collection be managed?• Where does standardization happen?• How to manage changes?

Requirements• What is SMART terminology?

– What does it provide over the non-SMART ones?

• How can we make terminology SMART?• What technology does SMART

terminology require?

Defining SMART Terminology: Standards, Machine…

• Accessible– Items/collections are referenceable

• Readable– Rich: ISO 10241-1 / ISO 704

compatible schemas– Multiple readable formats for different

implementations• Transferrable

– Open data, bulk and offline use– Not locked to APIs, technologies or

implementations

• Terminology– Available: versioning of concepts

and related metadata– Relational: linking relationships

between items

• And a governance process that facilitates them…

SMART standard

• Shared by ISO/TC 184/SC 4/JWG 24 SMART pilot team• Procedure based on IEC Database Procedures (IEC DIR 1 Annex SL)

Change request Validation team CR applied

Terminology Proposer

Vote success

Vote Determine outcome

Domain expertsCR

submitted

Management group

Draft ISO SMART Terminology standardization procedure

SMART Terminology Pilot progress

Progressing to SMART:• machine-readable: JSON, Turtle/SKOS,

ISO-TBX-TBT• managed with ISO 19104 and ISO 19135-1• some concept relationships (SKOS)• concept versioning• change requests via ISO 19135-1Next:• Process and governance development• Develop strategy for ISO/TCs• Relationships between versioned concepts• Detected relationships

• Server framework with desktop app• Adopts the ISO 704 concept system,

ISO 10241-1 term structure• Standardization lifecycle support:

proposal + approval (ISO 19135-1, ISO 19104)

• Git-based storage and collaborative data entry

• Based on the Paneron data registry• https://www.glossarist.org

Glossarist for terminology management

Governance challenge 1: Standardized concepts and relationships change

ABA688Thermo measuring assemblyR1

ABA684Measuring assemblyR1

ABA687Temperature measuring assemblyR1

ABA684Measuring assemblyR1

ABA688Multipoint temperature measuring assemblyR2

broader

broader

broader

broader

an evolving ontology: we must keep historic relationships, too!

ABA688Thermo measuring assemblyR1

succeeds

Governance challenge 2: IEC/TC 1 and IEC/SC 3D definitions of “proximity switch”

«IEV»identifier: 441-14-51

English:designation: proximity switchdefinition: a position switch which is …

French:designation: interrupteur de proximitégender: mdefinition: interrupteur de position …

Finnish:…

«CDD»identifier: 0112/2///61987#ABA731

English: preferred name: proximity switchdefinition: position switch that detects…

French:preferred name: Commutateur de proximitédefinition: commutateur de position qui

détecte…relationships:

superclass: …

Governance challenge 2: IEC/TC 1 and IEC/TC 3 definitions of “voltmeter”

«IEV»identifier: 303-01-03

English:designation: voltmeterdefinition: instrument intended to

measure…French:

designation: voltmètergender: mdefinition: appareil destine à mesurer la…

Finnish:…

«IEC 60617»identifier: S00913

English: name: Voltmeter

French:name: Voltmèter

symbols:EPSGIF…

application notes: A00154relationships:

application class: …function class: …

Potential governance solution?

Initial mapping1. Build a “Common Concepts/Semantics

Registry”2. Deduplicate concepts in SDBs3. Build mapping between SDB concepts

Change requests1. Proposal of new / modification of concept 2. Concept coordination vetting3. Acceptance / modification / mapping of

concept

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Concept/semantics coordination group

TC 1 / IEV

SC 3D / CDD

TC 3

Thank you!