Applying Standards to Information Centric Operations
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STANDARDS
Figure 5-1 : Semantics , data , and presentation .
There may be standards applicable both for things that people are doing now in the world of data centric operations and digital twins , and in future possibilities that will likely only become clear once things move to a more ubiquitously information-centric way of thinking and working .
Considering the two kinds of case studies described above , the move towards data-centricity can perhaps be benefitted by the use or development of standards in two related areas :
1 . The creation and curation of real-world oriented or concept ontologies 2 . Data-centric digital twins and separation of concerns
Combining these would bring the potential of formal ontology to the provision of data-centric digital twinning implementations in industrial applications and elsewhere .
A pre-requisite of data centricity is the separation of form from content , something which is baked into many OMG specifications , such as UML 23 and SysML 24 . At the heart of the OMG ’ s thinking is the separation of concerns , as documented in Model Driven Architecture ( MDA ) 25 .
23 https :// www . omg . org / spec / UML
24 https :// www . omg . org / spec / SysML / 1.7
25 https :// www . omg . org / mda / 24
February 2025