Data management and interchange

Standards for data management within and among local and distributed information systems environments. SC 32 provides enabling technologies to promote harmonization of data management facilities across sector-specific areas. Specifically, SC 32 standards include:

• reference models and frameworks for the coordination of existing and emerging standards;
• definition of data domains, data types, and data structures, and their associated semantics;
• languages, services, and protocols for persistent storage, concurrent access, concurrent update, and interchange of data;
• methods, languages, services, and protocols to structure, organize, and register metadata and other information resources associated with sharing and interoperability, including electronic commerce