BSR PRESENTATION :
What is the scope of the BSR?
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The BSR is an official ISO data register for
use by designers, implementers and users of information systems
in a manner which will allow systems development to move from a
closed to an open multilingual environment, especially for use in
domestic and international electronic communication including
electronic commerce and EDI.
It is important to mention, and to
emphasize the important role the USER COMMUNITY is expected to play in the
BSR. The aim of the register is to serve the user community. It
contains its data and meets its priority needs in a global and
common manner. It is not intended to be an academic exercise with
a set of paper documents to be filed away. It is expected to be a
database in the public domain growing in line with expanding user
needs, managed in a secure manner and working in partnership with
the world-wide user community.
The purpose of the BSR is to provide an
internationally agreed register of multilingual data concepts,
semantic units (SU), with its technical infrastructure. This will
provide storage, maintenance and distribution facilities for
reference data about semantic units and their links (bridges)
with operational directories. The semantic units will be built
from semantic components, which can be considered as building
blocks. It should be noted that the term "directories"
also includes "repositories". The BSRs principle
function is to provide data in multiple languages which have been
developed in a consistent, unambiguous manner according to
international standards. This development will be carried out in
partnership with the organizations that have responsibility for
it.
As a consequence of establishing the BSR, it
will be used to: