The EU has announced ‘Joinup’
a set of federated ‘semantic assets’ for information sharing and reuse. The
online collections are maintained by public administrations, businesses and
standards bodies leveraging the asset description metadata schema (ADMS).
MDIS, an international
oil and gas production industry network group whose mission is to optimize the
Master Control System (MCS) and Distributed Control System (DCS) interface of
topside systems, has selected OPC UA
as its protocol standard. OPC UA will provide ‘secure and reliable data transfer
for offshore oil and gas production.’
Oasis has started a Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) technical committee to ‘define an efficient, extensible standard’ for virtual devices that will work across environments and operating systems. Proposers include IBM, Oracle and Red Hat. More from Oasis.
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