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This Technical Specification establishes an architecture, a methodology, and other specifications for integrating industrial data for exchange, access, and sharing. The following activities are supported: - integrating data which may be: - from different sources or different 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. The following are within the scope of ISO 18876: - integration models; - methods for creating, extending, and updating integration models; - methods for creating a mapping specification to map data instances between an integration model and an application model that falls within its scope; - encoding and decoding of data and models with different formats, such as SGML [1], XML [7], EXPRESS [3], UML [6] and ISO 10303-21 [4]; - methods for consolidating data sets from different sources and different models; - modelling and mapping specification languages. The following is within the scope of this part of ISO 18876: - the architecture and an outline of the methodology. The following are outside the scope of this part of ISO 18876: - integration models;- detailed specifications of the methodology;