The Interop Glossary
An evolving vocabulary for the law of interoperability governing electronic data format and communication protocol technical specifications, standards, and technical regulations.
- SC 34
- Subcommittee 34. A particular technical subcommittee of ISO/IEC/JTC 1 established for development and processing of Document Description and Processing Languages standards, technical reports, and conformity assessment procedures relating to structured markup languages (specifically the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) in the areas of information description, processing and association. See SC 34 Scope.
- schema
- A schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntax constraints imposed by XML itself. An XML schema provides a view of the document type at a relatively high level of abstraction. See Wikipedia article.
- SDO
- Standard development organization. SDOs may be governmental or non-governmental.
- SOA
Service Oriented Architecture. An architectural style for ICT systems that is largely a response to a crisis of complexity in legacy systems. An SOA guides all aspects of creating and using business processes, packaged as services, throughout their life cycle, as well as defining and provisioning the IT infrastructure that allows different applications to exchange data and participate in business processes loosely coupled from the operating systems and programming languages underlying those applications.
SOA represents a model in which functionality is decomposed into distinct units (information services) that can be distributed over a network and can be combined together and reused to create business applications. These services communicate with each other by passing data from one service to another, or by coordinating an activity between two or more services. SOA concepts are often seen as being built upon, and the evolution of, older concepts of distributed computing and modular programming. See Wikipedia article.
- standard
- Under the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, "[a] document approved by a recognized body, that provides, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for products or related processes and production methods, with which compliance is not mandatory. It may also include or deal exclusively with terminology, symbols, packaging, marking or labeling requirements as they apply to a product, process or production method." The definition is found in ATBT Annex 1 § 2.
