Bomos

Abstract

E-Business standards, or standards for interoperability, are developed outside the traditional standard development organizations, often within industry specific domain organizations. These organizations need some guidance in how to develop and manage standards for their specific domain in order to achieve long lasting standards that actually achieve interoperability between organizations. The Dutch government, together with the standards community, decided to publish a tool called BOMOS for giving guidance to the management and development of open standards. BOMOS is not profoundly grounded on scientific evidence, but it builds on the best practices already used in domain standardization. This chapter will present two highlights of BOMOS: the activity model for management of standardization, and a development approach for standards.

Balancing of Heterogeneity and Interoperability in E-Business Networks

“…Harmonization should be ensured for the whole lifecycle of a standard, therewith they stay actually, will become properly adapted to changing demands, are compatible with referenced codes and adjacent standards, are well documented and offer sufficient support for their users. An interesting approach offers BOMOS framework (Folmer, 2012)…”

“…This aspect deals with semantic interoperability, ontology based knowledge exchange and advanced modeling of efficient and effective Business-Processes. Semantic interoperability means "that cooperating parties allocate the same meaning to the data that is exchanged" as defined in Folmer (2012). In reality this is difficult to get, because the cooperating parties can differ in aspects like domain, language, culture, social level, organization, application field, etc.…”