Overview
ISO/IEC 15944-2:2015 - part of the ISO/IEC 15944 Business Operational View (BOV) series - specifies procedures for registering Open-edi scenarios and scenario components as business objects. The standard defines the information elements, identifier formats and lifecycle procedures required to establish, maintain and publish registers of unique, linguistically independent identifiers and associated meanings. It sets out how qualified JTC 1 Registration Authorities (OeRA) and Registration Organizations (OeRO) operate federated registers to enable reusability, multilingualism and long‑term integrity of registered items.
Key topics and technical requirements
- Registration procedures and lifecycle management: Submission, approval, clarification, supersession, retirement, withdrawal and appeals; confidentiality and publication rules.
- Identifier structure (OeRI / IRBOI): Components such as the Open‑edi Registration Organization Identifier (OeROI), Business Object Identifier (BOI) and version identifiers for precise, permanent references.
- Roles and responsibilities: Open‑edi Sponsoring Authority, OeRA, OeRO, submitting organizations, stewardship organizations, OeR managers and register users.
- Registry operation and federation: Governance, integrity, states of a register, and operational rules for federated registration authorities to ensure consistency and global discoverability.
- Reusability and multilingualism: Rules for human interface equivalents, cultural adaptability and maintaining language‑neutral identifiers while documenting equivalent names/definitions in multiple languages.
- Register schema and metadata: Required registration attributes and administrative/scoping attributes to document meaning, provenance and usage constraints.
Practical applications and who uses it
ISO/IEC 15944-2 is intended for organizations involved in e‑Business modeling, standards maintenance and interoperability projects:
- Standards bodies and JTC 1 Registration Authorities that establish and manage Open‑edi registers.
- Companies and industry consortia submitting business transaction scenarios, message components or semantic building blocks for standardization and cross‑industry reuse.
- Software vendors and integrators implementing e‑Business solutions who need permanent, unambiguous identifiers for scenario components to enable reliable mapping, versioning and data exchange.
- Enterprise architects and data governance teams using registered business objects to support interoperability, localization (multilingual interfaces) and long‑term traceability of business transaction definitions.
Benefits include improved interoperability, clearer governance of semantic components, version control of business transaction elements, and better support for multilingual and cross‑jurisdictional e‑Business.
Related standards
ISO/IEC 15944-2 is part of the broader ISO/IEC 15944 series (BOV). Related parts include:
- Part 1 (Operational aspects of Open‑edi)
- Part 4 (Business transaction scenarios / accounting and economic ontology)
- Part 5 (Identification and referencing of jurisdictional constraints)
- Other parts addressing vocabulary, traceability and semantic components.
Keywords: ISO/IEC 15944-2, Open-edi registration, business objects, register, IRBOI, OeRA, OeRO, e-Business interoperability, multilingual registry, identifier lifecycle.