International Organization for Standardization

Information technology - Metamodel framework for interoperability (MFI) - Part 12: Metamodel for information model registration - First Edition
 N ISO/IEC 19763-12

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The primary purpose of the multipart standard ISO/IEC 19763 is to specify a metamodel framework for interoperability. This part of ISO/IEC 19763 specifies a metamodel for registering information models. This metamodel was developed taking into account two distinct types of information models such as

— those that are used to document the information requirements of a particular area of interest, and

— those that represent the structure of a database which are often expressed using a Database Definition Language (DDL).

Information models that represent information requirements can be developed using a number of different common diagramming techniques and notations. The metamodel specified in this part of ISO/IEC 19763 was developed to cover the registration of models expressed using the following techniques and notations:

— Express-G, an ISO standard entity-relationship modelling notation, as described in Reference [8];

— IDEF1X, a US Federal standard entity-relationship modelling notation, as described in References [6] and [12];

— the entity-relationship modelling notation first developed by Harry Ellis and Richard Barker and later adopted by Oracle for its CASE*Method and by the UK's CCTA for SSADM (Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method), as described in Reference [2];

— the UML Class Diagram notation, as described in References [13] and [14];