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== Community Profile for NIST/MSID  ==

By / Date: [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]] / 2005.11.9

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* Community (name): National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) / Manufacturing Systems Integration Division (MSID) 
* Date Established: 1981 
* Key Stakeholders: U.S. Manufacturers, U.S. Healthcare sector, U.S. Congress 
* Constituency: Employees at NIST, plus many collaborators from industry, consortia, standards bodies and universities throughout the world 
* Domain: Measurements & Standards supporting interoperability in the manufacturing sector, plus other sectors where there is easy transfer of expertise and results 
* Mission / Charter: To promote economic growth by working with industry to develop and apply interoperability measurements and standards for software used in all aspects of manufacturing. 
* With respect to Ontology work (esp. eGov-related work), the community's: 
** Medium Term Goal: advance the science and art of ontological engineering and semantic technologies; moving them into the mainstream through adoption by standards bodies 
** Short Term Goal: provide measurement (testing) tools for standards validation, conformance testing, and interoperability testing. 
** Deliverables within the next 6 months: A continuing series of testing tools - see http://www.mel.nist.gov/msid/msidprod.htm 
* Key Differentiation (with the other communities presenting today): As a government agency, we provide a measurement and standards infrastructure that brings benefit to a wide set of industry sectors 
* What we can bring to the table to foster collaboration with other communities here today: All of our work resides in the public domain. We are here to help the economy grow through increased productivity and efficiencies by means of a technology standards infrastructure that supports interoperability 
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