ISO_IEC_11179-5_2015.pdf

Information technology Metadata registries(MDR)Part 5:Naming principlesTechnologies de linformation Registres de mtadonnes(RM)Partie 5:Principes de dnominationINTERNATIONAL STANDARDISO/IEC11179-5Reference numberISO/IEC 11179-5:2015(E)Third edition2015-04-01 ISO/IEC 2015 ii ISO/IEC 2015 All rights reservedCOPYRIGHT PROTECTED DOCUMENT ISO/IEC 2015All rights reserved.Unless otherwise specified,no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying,or posting on the internet or an intranet,without prior written permission.Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISOs member body in the country of the requester.ISO copyright officeCase postale 56 CH-1211 Geneva 20Tel.+41 22 749 01 11Fax+41 22 749 09 47E-mail copyrightiso.orgWeb www.iso.orgPublished in SwitzerlandISO/IEC 11179-5:2015(E)ISO/IEC 11179-5:2015(E)Foreword.ivIntroduction.v1 Scope.12 Conformance.12.1 Conformity for registries.12.1.1 Rules for a conforming registry.12.1.2 Rules for a strictly conforming registry.12.2 Conformity for systems.22.2.1 Rules for a conforming system.22.2.2 Rules for a strictly conforming system.23 Normative references.24Termsanddefinitions.35Therelationshipofnamesandidentifierswithinaregistry.66 Names.67 Naming conventions.78 Classes in the metamodel.78.1 Namespace class.78.1.1 Relationship of scoped identifiers and names.78.1.2 Uniqueness.78.2 Naming convention class.89 Development of naming conventions.89.1 Introduction.89.2 Scope principle.99.3 Authority principle.99.4 Semantic principle.99.5 Syntactic principle.99.6 Lexical principle.99.7 Uniqueness principle.910 Concept system relationship to names.1010.1 Concepts as higher-level classes.1010.2 Concepts as classification system.10Annex A(informative)Example naming conventions for names within an MDR registry.11Annex B(informative)Example naming conventions for Asian languages.21Annex C(informative)Concordance table for item names.24Bibliography.25 ISO/IEC 2015 All rights reserved iiiContents Page ISO/IEC 11179-5:2015(E)ForewordISO(the International Organization for Standardization)and IEC(the International Electrotechnical Commission)form the specialized system for worldwide standardization.National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity.ISO and IEC technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest.Other international organizations,governmental and non-governmental,in liaison with ISO and IEC,also take part in the work.In the field of information technology,ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee,ISO/IEC JTC 1.The procedures used to develop this document and those intended for its further maintenance are described in the ISO/IEC Directives,Part 1.In particular the different approval criteria needed for the different types of document should be noted.This document was drafted in accordance with the editorial rules of the ISO/IEC Directives,Part 2(see www.iso.org/directives).Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights.ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.Details of any patent rights identified during the development of the document will be in the Introduction and/or on the ISO list of patent declarations received(see www.iso.org/patents).Any trade name used in this document is information given for the convenience of users and does not constitute an endorsement.For an explanation on the meaning of ISO specific terms and expressions related to conformity assessment,as well as information about ISOs adherence to the WTO principles in the Technical Barriers to Trade(TBT),see the following URL:Foreword Supplementary information.The committee responsible for this document is ISO/IEC JTC 1,Information technology,SC 32,Data Management and Interchange.This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition(ISO/IEC 11179-5:2005),which has been technically revised.ISO/IEC 11179 consists of the following parts,under the general title Information Technology Metadata registries(MDR):Part 1:Framework Part2:Classification Part 3:Registry metamodel and basic attributes Part4:Formulationofdatadefinitions Part 5:Naming principles Part 6:Registration iv ISO/IEC 2015 All rights reserved ISO/IEC 11179-5:2015(E)IntroductionThis part of ISO/IEC 11179 contains both principles and rules.Principles establish the premises on which the rules are based.Registry users may enforce rules as an application of this part of ISO/IEC 11179.A naming convention is a convention(a set of rules)about names.Many naming conventions have much in common,whether it is defining a method of specifying names for common usage across application systems,or developing an organizati