ISO/IEC 19763-6:2015

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 19763-6
First edition
2015-09-01
Information technology —
Metamodel framework for
interoperability (MFI) —
Part 6:
Registry Summary
Technologies de l’information — Cadre du métamodèle pour
l’interopérabilité (MFI) —
Partie 6: Résumé Registry
Reference number
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ISO/IEC 2015
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Contents Page
Foreword . v
Introduction . vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Conformance . 1
2.1 General . 1
2.2 Degree of conformance . 1
2.2.1 General . 1
2.2.2 Strictly conforming . 2
2.2.3 Conforming implementation . 2
2.3 Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS) . 2
3 Normative references . 2
4 Terms, definitions and abbreviated item . 2
4.1 Terms and definitions . 2
4.2 Terms for concepts used in this part of 19763 . 2
4.3 Abbreviate terms . 3
5 Background and purpose . 4
5.1 General . 4
5.2 Role of the Registry Summary . 4
6 Struct of Registry Summary . 5
6.1 Overview of Registry Summary . 5
6.2 Associations between Registry Summary and Core_Model package from MFI-10. 6
6.3 Metaclasses in the Registry_Summary package . 7
6.3.1 Classification metaclass . 7
6.3.2 Contact metaclass . 8
6.3.3 Contents metaclass . 8
6.3.4 Document metaclass . 8
6.3.5 Interface metaclass . 9
6.3.6 Organization metaclass . 10
6.3.7 Other_Standard_Model metaclass . 11
6.3.8 Registry metaclass . 11
6.3.9 Registry_Component metaclass . 13
6.3.10 Related_Registry metaclass . 14
6.3.11 Registry_Summary_Language . 15
Annex A (informative) Types of a registry system for Registry Summary . 16
A.1 Introduction . 16
A.2 Types of a registry system for Registry Summary . 16
A.2.1 General . 16
A.2.2 Independent Registry . 16
A.2.3 Replicated Registry . 16
A.2.4 Federated Registry . 17
Annex B (informative) Example of using models of other standard in Registry Summary . 18
B.1 Introduction . 18
B.2 Adaptation method of model of other standard . 18
B.2.1 General . 18
B.2.2 Example of using ISO/IEC 11179-3:2013 classes . 19
B.2.3 Example of using UN/CEFACT Core Component Library classes . 19
Annex C (informative) Example of XML Schema for Registry Summary . 20
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C.1 Introduction .20
C.2 XML Schema definition .20
C.2.1 General .20
C.2.2 ComplexType definition .20
C.2.3 Sample element definition .24
Annex D (informative) Example of indicator of Registry Summary .25
D.1 Introduction .25
D.2 Location of Registry Summary in META tag .25

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Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical
Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of
ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees
established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEC
technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental
and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information
technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1.
International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
The main task of the joint technical committee is to prepare International Standards. Draft International
Standards adopted by the joint technical committee are circulated to national bodies for voting. Publication as
an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the national bodies casting a vote.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
ISO/IEC 19763-6 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology,
Subcommittee SC 32, Data Management and Interchange.
ISO/IEC 19763 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information Technology — Metamodel
framework for interoperability (MFI):
 Part 1: Framework
 Part 3: Metamodel for ontology registration
 Part 5: Metamodel for process model registration
 Part 6: Registry Summary (this document)
 Part 7: Metamodel for service model registration
 Part 8: Metamodel for role and goal model registration
 Part 9: On demand model selection [Technical Report]
 Part 10: Core model and basic mapping
 Part 12: Metamodel for information model registration
 Part 13: Metamodel for form design registration
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Introduction
The effective interchange of information across business domains, countries and cultures is an important
concern for people in both the IT industry and non-IT industries.
To follow the current trends, industrial consortia have engaged in the standardization of domain-specific
business objects, including business process models and software components using common modelling
tools and interchange facilities such as UML and XML. They are very active in standardizing domain-specific
business process models and standard modelling constructs such as data elements, entity profiles and value
domains.
The ISO/IEC 19763 family of standards defines normative metamodels for the registration of models
(including information models and process models), ontologies, services and roles & goals. Items or objects
specified by those metamodels have been registered into particular registry systems. In order to perform
effective exchange of pertinent information smoothly, individual registry systems need to interoperate with
other registry systems.
This part of ISO/IEC 19763 defines a metamodel for the use case in which registry systems of different kinds
must share information.
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 19763-6:2015(E)

Information Technology — Metamodel framework for
interoperability (MFI) — Part 6: Registry Summary
1 Scope
The ISO/IEC 19763 family of standards defines normative metamodels for the registration of models
(including information models and process models), ontologies, services and roles & goals. Currently a lot of
metadata registries or model registries were constructed and utilized in many different business domains,
such as e-business, healthcare, automobile, electronics devices and civil construction.
One of the key issues for the cross domain data or services integration must be enabling the easy discovery
of metadata that are stored in the different registries that were scattered over different domains. Therefore, it
is necessary to provide specific metadata that describes the registry itself in order to enable interoperation
among different registries that were built following different standards.
This part of the ISO/IEC 19763 family of standards specifies an information artefact called the Registry
Summary. The Registry Summary consists of information that describes administrative aspects, the summary
of contents and the technical access method of the registry.
A collection of multiple Registry Summary information is called a “Registry of Registries” or RoR, however, this
standard does not mandate a particular implementation. Also, any specific protocol between Registry
Summaries and RoR, such as creation of RoR and synchronization of RoR, would not be specified in this
standard. Those are to be specified by other standards.
The Registry Summary and RoR concept should be applied to all Metamodel Framework for Interoperability
(MFI) registries, but its use may be applied to any kind of registries.
2 Conformance
2.1 General
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