Welcome to 15926.org, the home of an industrial data modelling team implementing the ISO 15926 interoperability standard.
The scope of ISO 15926 is "Integration of life-cycle data for process plants, including oil and gas production facilities".
Data integration means combining information derived from several independent sources into one coherent set of data that represents what is known. Because the independent sources often have overlapping scopes, combining their data requires the common things to be recognized, duplicate information to be removed, and new information represented. To succeed in the role of integration, the data model must have a context that can include all the possible data that might be wanted or required.
Of course that is not a goal in itself, but it serves two main purposes:
- global semantic interoperability, defined as:
"Semantic interoperability is the ability of computer systems to exchange information with unambiguous, shared meaning.
It is a requirement to enable inferencing, knowledge discovery, and data federation between information systems."
This allows applications and systems, used globally during the life of a facility, to share information. - archiving, collecting and integrating plant life-cycle information that can be used for:
- information sharing during day-to-day activities
- reasoning with integrated data
- CAE - Computer Aided Engineering
- Digital Twin software
- knowledge mining
- operations optimization
- root cause analysis
- the next revamp
- etc
It also explains how the standard can be implemented with W3C Semantic Web technologies.
ISO 15926 is generic and can, given a domain-specific vocabulary, be used for other domains.
Download the paper ISO 15926 - the Lingua Franca of global interoperability -Updated 2024-07-14. Back-up site is 15926.blog