The data coordination framework
Phorio Standards is the information specifications team of Phorio and tries to ease the practical exchange of information assets for any commercial or non-commercial use.
The purpose of Phorio Standards is to find a broad consensus over the meaning of certain terms and data fields for real estate, construction, and location-based environments. These data standards are open and help to reassure that information means what it was expected to.
The processes and definitions appearing through Phorio Standards form a framework for interoperability of information which anyone can use at no cost regardless of implementation. Phorio Standards foster maximum usability and usefulness; the defined strict definitions, flexible standards, and transformation processes are implemented in data processing systems and are designed to be compatible with common usage and to form a basis for services of coordinated information exchange. These definitions create a framework where information assets are fully extensible to all imaginable applications, with interoperability of data between the widest array of users.
Phorio Standards is also creating a glossary of explanations where we describe technical terms which are not actually implemented for data processing (yet). These glossary terms describe facts, circumstances, and processes from industries such as architecture, construction, engineering, real estate, financing, and related industries, and are explained here so that the understanding of definitions is enhanced.
Specific goals and objectives
- Identify and participate in the development of standards that will have a positive effect on users and systems in the affected industries globally.
- Create new standards and incorporate existing ones which are useful across a wide spectrum of market segments, and which support the products and business directions of users.
- Participate effectively in national and international technology standards organizations.
- Oversee an internal and external standards program which can be managed in a cost effective manner.
- Implement standards and technologies which are consistent with products and platforms used by multiple participants in various fields and industries.
- Allow information specification organizations and other users to facilitate and publish codes for the sake of interoperability.
- Enable the creation and use of permanent identifiers for information objects and define authorization processes for them.
Phorio Standards provide uniform definitions to foster common understanding and interoperability of information assets across domains. The current focus is on built objects such as properties and structures. In the future, many other information classes will follow. Right now more than 3,000 definitions make Phorio Standards a leading specifications organization.
We think that the definitions are already a nice way to describe things. But the real challenge for users is to identify objects and exchange actual data about such objects on a uniform basis. That's why we're developing Phorio APIs to make actual information assets universally accessible across the limitations of domains, based on the fields described in Phorio Standards.
commercial office (strict standard)
high-bay warehouse (flexible standard)
transform a meaning (reaction mask)
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