Q14 - Standards Development Plan, Information Resources Dictionary System(IRDS): Analysis and Recommendations
Abstract
An Information Resources Dictionary System (IRDS) provides an inventory system for information environment of an enterprise and is intended to be the principal tool for managing the information resources of an enterprise. Its strongest advocates proclaim than an IRDS is central to a software engineering environment and that its uses include the modeling of the software engineering lifecycle and configuration control through the development, integration, and execution environments. The STARS (Software Technology Adaptable Reliable Systems) Interface Standards Task has investigated the IRDS standards and their meaning to STARS. This paper describes the IRDS and the current status of IRDS standardization efforts. It reports on early, federally funded users of the IRDS standard and on research which involves the intersection of Ada Programming Support Environments (APSE) and the IRDS standard. The original work within this report is the use of recently published guidelines for the comparison of semantic data models to analyze the models of CAIS-A, the ANSI IRDs standard, and the STARS EOM. The results of this study are a set of conclusions concerning the importance of the IRDS standards to STARS. In general, this paper is concerned with the role of STARS should play as an Ada advocate within the ANSI IRDS standards committee, the use of CAIS-A nodes for an IRDS implementation, and the relationship between IRDS interfaces and the STARS Environment Object Manager (EOM). (kr)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 07, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA228826