Glossary
| ANSA | Advanced Networked Systems Architecture, an Alvey Demonstrator project (UK), now continuing as an Esprit II project Integrated Systems Architectures, see ODP [Apm89]. |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute, see X.12. |
| ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials, has a committee E-49 on computerizing materials property data. |
| BSI | The British Standards Institution Panel on Materials Properties Data AMT/4-6 is part of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology section and contributes directly to committee AMT/4 which is responsible for the UK input to STEP. |
| CAD/CAM | Combined computer aided design (usually just drafting) with computer aided manufacturing (usually just machining data production). |
| CALS | Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support (USA DoD) see [DD88a]. |
| CIM | Computer-Integrated Manufacturing: factory management, cell control, production planning and process planning. |
| CNMA | Computer Networks for Manufacturing Applications, Esprit project aimed at implementing MAP/TOP standards in aerospace and automotive companies. |
| CRV | Common Reference Vocabulary. A list of about 2000 terms with translations in nine languages and definitions in English [CRV89]. |
| CTDIF | Cambridge Tabular Data Interchange Format, an invention of the author, documented in [Sar89b]. One translator currently implemented. |
| ECMA | European Computer Manufacturs Association. |
| EDIF | Electronic Data Interchange Format, format used for data about electronic assemblies (USA). |
| EDIFACT | Electronic Data Interchange For Administration Commerce and Transport ISO 9735-1987. |
| Express | The major data modelling language used by the STEP project, ISO TC184/SC4/WG1 N287 and ISO DP 10303. A diagramming notation Express-G is available for data modelling. |
| FORS | A design environment which coordinates engineering design tools [Pap90]. |
| IGES | Initial Graphics Exchange Standard (USA) now available in version 4.0. |
| IRDS | Information Resource Dictionary System, ISO project on standardising data dictionary capabilities IEC/JTC1/SC21/WG3 [Gra88, Bey91]. |
| MAP/TOP | Manufacturing Automation Protocol (originally General Motors) and Technical Office Protocol (originally Boeing), manufacturing and office network protocols . |
| Metadata | This means data about data. It has been interpreted to mean several defferent things in detail: the field-names of a database, or the field-names and numeric information used to qualify a particular set of measurements. The former use is intended in this report. |
| MPDN | Materials Property Data Network, implemented in Columbus, Ohio, using the Chemical Abstracts Service network with hosts at Columbus, Tokyo and Karlsruhe. |
| NIST | National Institute for Standards and Technology (formerly NBS), Dept. of Commerce, USA. |
| ODP | Open Distributed Processing, see ANSA [Apm89]. |
| OMG | Object Management Group. A software industry consortium incorporated as a not-for-profit company which is attempting to coordinate development of standard object communication systems. |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection: 7-layer model (ISO TC97/SC16) see [Shu86, Ram89, Tho89, Bey91]. |
| PDES | Product Data Exchange Standard, USA based and run by the IGES organization. Materials input now coming from ASTM E-49. Forms American input to STEP. |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879-1986. Used as an essential component of CALS. |
| SQL | Structured Query Language, ISO standard 9075-1987 [Dat90]. |
| STEP | Standard for the Exchange of Product Data (ISO), see PDES, ISO Draft Proposal DP 10303. |
| VAMAS | Versailles Agreement on Advanced Materials and Standards [Kro87b, Kro88]. |
| X.12 | A precursor to EDIFACT, still supported by ANSI. |
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