Framework Could Aid Global Information Exchange
April 3rd, 2006 | Published in Business, Education, Health, Law, News, Politics, Science & Space, Sports, Technology, Travel, Weather
Federal Computer Week
An open-standards group has created a framework that could facilitate the global exchange of information among organizations. The naming system could benefit a wide range of disciplines, from disaster response to medical research.
The Open Group’s Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) has the potential to hasten information exchange by indexing the world’s datasets — from e-commerce services to government registries and medical research databases — in one universally shared semantic repository.
And evidence shows that UDEF works. In October 2005, Open Group officials demonstrated the framework for members of the information technology community.
