The Eclipse Sparkplug 4.0.0 release plan has been approved by the Sparkplug Specification Committee. The new version will improve support for multiple Sparkplug host applications, expand the ‘Sparkplug aware MQTT server’ profile and improve overall specification clarity
While the situation seems to be in flux, it would appear that Standards Norway has proposed a replacement for ISO 15926 Part 14. The new Industrial Data Ontology, ISO TC 184/SC 4 N3778 describes an OWL (web ontology language) for industrial data and information that will be used to ‘build vocabularies and manage asset models that employ reference data libraries and exploit OWL DL’. IDO is intended for use in all life cycle phases of industrial assets and processes. Follow ISO TC 184/SC 4 here.
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has issued its inaugural standards—IFRS S1 and IFRS S2, ‘ushering in a new era of sustainability-related disclosures in capital markets worldwide’. The standards will help to improve trust and confidence in company disclosures and help inform investment decisions. More from the IFRS.
Version 3.6 of the Modelica Language has been released with new features including multilingual descriptions, selective model extensions and ‘100+ minor improvements’. More in the release notes. The Association has also announced that the Modelica international conference will be held from October 9 to 11 in Aachen, Germany.
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has updated its standard for transparency and good governance of the oil, gas and mining sectors. The 2023 EITI standard, the fourth edition, strengthens EITI disclosures and governance requirements to improve understanding of the impact of the energy transition, address corruption risks, promote gender equity and strengthen revenue collection.
OAGi, the open applications group integration standards organization that addresses interoperability challenges among ERP systems, has moved its Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) to a membership model. This will enable ‘expanded development and promotion of ontologies and to provide better service and support to our user’ The work was previously funded by NIST. More from OAGi.
The Open Geospatial Consortium has announced a compliance certification process for its Processes Standard API. OGC compliance ‘provides confidence that a product will seamlessly integrate with other compliant solutions, regardless of which vendor created them’. The OGC has also released an executable test suite for the OGC API Processes Part 1: Core Standard. Products that implement the Standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant. Ecere’s GNOSIS Map Server 1.0 has been designated as a reference implementation of the new standard.
OGC has also issues a request for information in regard of a proposed Open Science Persistent Demonstrator. The multi year OSPD initiative is to address open Earth Observation (EO) platforms, EO data visualization and decision-making based on scientific evidence. Replies are due by September 17, 2023. More from OGC.
The PPDM Association has just published a white paper on data accountability and auditability. PPDM CEO Trudy Curtis argues that data standards that are designed around a specific technology come with significant overhead including methods to support the specific container structure, to identify individual records, to apply defaults and more. Accessing such data is ‘unwieldy and error prone’. The preferred route is to describing data and technology separately. Enter the PPDM Data Object Framework that ‘focuses equally on what a good data object looks like and what data professionals should know about them to successfully create and steward them in various technical environments’. More from PPDM.
The Object Management Group has released Systems Modeling Language V2 (SysML v2) with a capacity to modeling increasingly complex systems with improved precision, usability and interoperability. The tool was endorsed by Frédéric Bourcier (CATIA VP with Dassault Systèmes) who observed that ‘We are witnessing a strong adoption of model-based systems engineering in next generation cyber systems. SysML V2 will accelerate the trend.’
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