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Created on Oct 23, 2024

Ability for client to ingest Industry standards into IKC to accelerate standards utilsation in their Data Governance usecases

As discussed in 23rd Oct 2024 - slack DM between Pat O'Sullivan, Michael Loughran, Michael Szylar, Paul Kilroy, Anna Arato

Area of ingesting Industry standards into IKC, well demonstrated by client use case in the 'Business Impact Statement' section below for Siemens Energy.

Those 2 standards are available in different formats today out in the WWW:
- IISO 81346 - OWL/RDF format - https://gitlab.com/enyr/data-model/-/blob/master/IEC81346-1.owl?ref_type=heads
- CFIHOS Standards - https://www.jip36-cfihos.org/cfihos-standards/
---- Data dictionary in Excel format - https://www.jip36-cfihos.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/C-DM-002-Data-Dictionary-V1.5.1.xlsx
-----Data Model in Enterprise Architect xmi format - https://www.jip36-cfihos.org/datamodel/v1.5.1/

Note: Makes the IP clearance for the standard a client responsibility.
- large organisations probably already have clearance to use the predominant Industry standards on which they depend

We in KA could just provide the capability for ingesting certain formats, and structuring the result in a sensible manner within IKC. Some main formats:

- RDF / OWL

- CSV / Excel

- Data Model xmi (or maybe Erwin)

- Possibly UML xmi

Whether these standards get imported in IKC as business terms, or some other artifact/asset type to be decided.

Getting client input as to how they would use the standards too, once imported into IKC would be important data point.

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Also discussed in 16th Oct 2024 - slack DM between Pat O'Sullivan and Michael Loughran

If we could support bringing in the predominant standard in an Industry, and:

integrating it with client existing glossary
and or augmenting the standard with client extensions
and or generating additions to their glossary in the style of standard

That could be a great usecase.

I am sure each Industry has a predominant standard

hopefully there are only about 3-4 formats, that cover a wide gambit of them

RDF, UML, etc

Need to get an understanding of exactly HOW clients would then use these standards in a Data Fabric/Data Governance format. for example :

Do they use that standard as the basis for their central business vocabulary which underpins their data governance ? to me this appears the most obvious use case. I.e. a client takes a standard and customizes/extends it to their own needs. Really helpful in industries where we don't have coverage today (e.g. ARTS for Retail, TMFORUM for Telco, IATA Model for Airlines, etc) . Also helpful to clients  in industries we already cover but want to use a "competing" standard (e.g FIBO or BIAN for Banking or ACORD for Insurance)
Or do they use it as a separate supplemental vocabulary, in which case how would such a supplemental vocab be set up in IKC, who has visibility, what is the specific role in the data governance landscape and exactly who should or should not see this standard.  E.g Is this supplemental vocabulary something that is visible to MDE when doing TA

Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool