The American Petroleum Institute has announced the API Webstore, the ‘definitive source’ for all API standards, recommended practices and technical documents.
The Digital Twin Consortium and OPC Foundation have signed a ‘liaison agreement’ to ‘advance the use of digital twins in manufacturing across industries’. The DTC and the OPCF have worked together on ‘several open-source reference projects’ on GitHub and are now to collaborate more.
A new report from the IOGP (Report 660) provides a classification system for well control incidents. These occur when there is a failure or degradation of barriers that are designed to keep fluids in the well or reservoir. The classification system will allow IOGP member companies to notify each other, and the wider community, of the lessons learned from well control incidents and near misses.
Another report from the IOGP (Report 656) is the result of an assessment of eye tracking technology in well control operations. IOGP used eye tracking technology to monitor experienced drilling professionals working in a drilling simulator. The study found that ‘eye tracking technology is an effective analysis tool and has the potential to be of value in well operations’.
The International Society of Automation has provided an update on the workings of its ISA112 Scada
committee. To date, the committee has produced a ‘consensus-based
definition’ for what a Scada system is and how and where it can be
used, a system management lifecycle diagram, and a model architecture
along with some 800 pages of documentation. Part 1 of the standard is
expected to be early in 2024. More from the ISA’s InTech online newsletter.
ISO, the international organization for standardization has announced the ISO 14068
standard for quantifying, monitoring, reporting and verifying
greenhouse gas emissions and removals and carbon neutrality. The new
standard is a snip at 61 Swiss Francs. A preview is available here. The new standard is a member of the ISO 14060 ‘family’ of standards under the auspices of the Technical Subcommittee TC207sc7. See also this summary on the on the Blue Carbon Projects website.
Version 3.6 of the Modelica language has been finalized and will released real soon now. The association has also released an implementers’ guide to FMI 3.0. The Guide was a joint venture with ProSTEP. More on both topics in the Modelica Association newsletter.
The US National Science Foundation and five other US government agencies (including NASA and the US Geological Survey) are to build a prototype open knowledge network, Proto-OKN, a $20 million ‘funding opportunity’. The OKN is described as an ‘integrated data and knowledge infrastructure’, a publicly accessible, interconnected set of data repositories and associated knowledge graphs that will enable ‘data-driven, artificial intelligence-based solutions for a broad set of societal challenges’. Proposals are due by June 2023.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is looking to adopt FlatGeobuf as an official OGC Community Standard. FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that can hold a collection of simple features. Because of its simple core design and efficient I/O handling, FlatGeobuf works well as a cloud native lossless format for vector data. Based on Flatbuffers, FlatGeobuf is envisaged as a ‘practical replacement for Esri Shapefiles’.
OGC is also forming a new GeoDCAT standards working group to revise, publish and maintain GeoDCAT, the spatio-temporal profile of the W3C DCAT recommendation. GeoDCAT will provide a standardized vocabulary and encoding for spatial dataset descriptions and metadata, based on Web standards. GeoDCAT enables spatial data to abide by FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles in a web-native environment. A GeoDCAT European profile (GeoDCAT-AP) is referenced by the EU as a ‘Good Practice’.
A joint working group of The Open Group’s Open Process Automation Forum and the OPC-Foundation Field Level Communications Initiative is to develop a set of information modelling recommendations for the OPC UA Field eXchange (OPC UA FX) and OPAS specifications. The aim for a convergence of the two models.
The XBRL* organization has published a best practice Guide to its reporting formats. The Guide covers the four XBRL formats, ‘conventional’ xBRL-XML, inline XBRL (iXBRL), xBRL-JSON and xBRL-CSV, with a ‘deep dive’ into best practices for different reporting scenarios, to help users understand the key differences and strengths of each format.
* Extensible business reporting language.
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