ISO/IEC 15944-10:2013

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 15944-10
First edition
2013-02-15
Information technology — Business
Operational View —
Part 10:
IT-enabled coded domains as semantic
components in business transactions
Technologies de l'information — Vue opérationnelle d'affaires —
Partie 10: Domaines codés activés comme composantes sémantiques
dans les transactions d'affaires

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Contents Page
Foreword . vi
0  Introduction . vii
0.1  Overview of purpose and nature of coded domains . vii
0.2  Benefits of the use of coded domains . viii
0.3  Identification, mapping and IT-enablement of existing standards for widely-used code
sets. ix
0.4  Link to fundamental components in Business Transaction Model (BTM) . xi
0.5  IT-enabled and content predefined Semantic Components . xii
0.6  Coded domains as reusable business objects . xiii
0.7  Use of "Person", "organization" and "party" in the context of business transaction and
commitment exchange. xiv
0.8  Importance and role of terms and definitions . xv
0.9  Use of "identifier" as "identifier (in business transaction)" to prevent ambiguity . xvi
0.10  Organization and description of document . xvii
1  Scope . 1
1.1  Statement of Scope . 1
1.2  Exclusions . 2
1.3  Aspects currently not yet addressed . 2
1.3.1  Addressing “Quadrant B, C & D” in Figure 5 . 2
1.3.2  Use of coded domains in support of the “Process” component in the Business
transaction model . 2
1.3.3  Use of coded domains with respect to Persons and in particular “individuals” and
associated privacy protection requirements . 2
1.3.4  Use of coded domains in support of “public policy” requirements and in particular
individual accessibility . 2
1.3.5  Detailed levels of rules pertaining to change management aspects of coded domains . 3
1.3.6  Differentiation of categories and levels of Source Authorities (SA) for coded domains . 3
1.4  IT-systems environment neutrality . 3
2  Normative references . 3
3  Terms and definitions . 4
4  Symbols and abbreviation . 38
5  Fundamental principles governing coded domains . 38
5.1  Introduction . 38
5.2  Need to be able to use coded domains in support of commitment exchange . 40
5.3  Coded domains based on clear, predefined rules, i.e., “rule-based” . 41
5.3.1  Requirements of rule-based coded domains as a whole . 41
5.3.2  Rule-base for IT enablement of a coded domain . 43
5.3.3  Rule-base for structuring a coded domain . 43
5.4  Separation of the IT interface from human interface requirements . 44
5.5  Specification and representation of coded domains in an IT-platform neutral manner . 45
6  Business operational view identification and description of coded domains . 46
6.1  Construct of coded domain . 46
6.1.1  Identification of coded domains . 47
6.1.2  Levels of Semantic unambiguity . 48
6.1.3  Rule-base of a coded domain . 49
6.1.4  Table of ID codes and HIEs . 49
6.2  Characteristics of coded domains . 49
6.2.1  “for free” or “for a fee” coded domains . 49
6.2.2  Exhaustiveness of coded domains . 50
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6.2.3  Semantic granularity .51
6.2.4  Openness of coded domains .51
7  Rules governing rule-base of coded domains .52
7.1  Introduction .52
7.2  Specification of a boundary of a coded domain and inclusion of its members .53
7.3  Specification of exclusionary rules for a coded domain .54
7.4  Source(s) of rule-base governing a coded domain .54
8  Rules for management of ID codes in coded domains .55
8.1  Introduction .55
8.2  Generic rules for the management of a coded domain .55
8.3  Rules governing assignment of ID codes .55
8.4  Rules governing the change management of entries in the coded domain .56
8.4.1  Change management of ID codes .56
8.4.2  Change management of HIEs .57
8.5  Registration of user extensions .57
9  Rules for specifying Human Interface Equivalents (HIEs) to an ID Code in a coded domain .57
9.1  Multiple Human Interface Equivalents (HIEs) for an ID code in a coded domain .57
9.2  Standard structure for semantics of a Human Interface Equivalent (HIE).58
9.3  Rules governing linguistic (written) representations as Human Interface Equivalents
(HIEs) of ID codes as required values in coded domains .59
9.4  Individual accessibility of HIEs of coded domains .59
9.5  Rules governing composite semantics .60
10  Coded domain and controlled vocabularies .60
10.1  Introduction .60
10.2  Rules common to controlled vocabularies and coded domains .61
10.3  Rules governing a controlled vocabulary .61
10.4  Rules governing a coded domain .62
11  Rules governing the registration of coded domains as re-usable business objects .63
11.1  Principles of registration .63
11.2  Process of registration .65
11.3  Coded Domain Registration scheme .65
12  IT-enablement of coded domains .66
12.1  Introduction .66
12.2  Templates for IT-enabled coded domains – Attributes for Scoping an Open-edi scenario
(OeS) .66
12.2.1  Purpose .66
12.2.2  Template structure and content .66
12.3  Template for Scoping Open-edi scenarios .66
12.4  Specification and consolidated template of attributes of Open-edi scenarios, roles,
information bundles (IBs) and semantic components (SCs) .70
Annex A (normative) Coded domain registration administration attributes .74
Annex B (normative) Use of IT-enabled coded domains to ensure semantic interoperability in
support of the “UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” .79
Annex C (informative) Concept and definition of “coded domain” .81
Annex D (informative) Case Study: Example of “e-potato” .87
Annex E (informative) Case study: Example of a coded domain with two writing systems for
Human Interface Equivalents (HIEs) of a set of ID codes - in Russian use of the Cyrillic
alphabet and the romanized form .89
Annex F (informative) Case study: Example of coded domain in Matrix form and XML format as
found in Table 2 in ISO/IEC 5218 “Codes representing the human sexes” .92
Annex G (informative) Determining whether the membership in a coded domain is exhaustive or
non-exhaustive .99
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Annex H (informative) Examples of identification of different object classes within a coded
domain through the use of semantic qualifiers .
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