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This Technical Specification establishes an architecture, a methodology, and other specifications for integrating industrial data for exchange, access and sharing. Together these support the following activities: integrating data which may be: - from different sources or with different model contexts, - described by different models, or - defined in different modelling languages; - sharing data among applications through systems integration architectures; - resolving conflict between models developed with different objectives; - translating data between different encodings; - translating models between different modelling languages. This part of ISO 18876 specifies methods for the following: - creating and extending integration models; - evaluating and selecting an integration model that can integrate two or more application models; - creating an application model that is a constrained subset of an integration model to support particular application domain requirements for exchange, sharing, or both; - creating a mapping specification between an application model and an integration model. The following are within the scope of this part of ISO 18876: -- modelling language independent methods for creating and extending an integration model; - methods for integrating an application model with an integration model; - mapping language independent methods for mapping an application model to an integration model; - criteria for the selecting modelling languages and mapping languages that can be used within the specified methods for integration and mapping.