Information Exchange Standard
The UK Government Information Exchange Standard (IES) was originally developed for exchanging knowledge between defence, policing and national security agencies. The standard has since been adopted by the UK National Digital Twin programme for representing data about digital twins. The IES is currently at version 4.3 and is maintained by a cross-government working group. The standard is hosted on Dstl's GitHub site [1] but will soon be migrated to another GitHub site maintained by Department for Business and Trade (DBT). Versions 1 to 3 of IES were specified as a UML model and implemented as an XML Schema. Since version 4.0, IES has been specified as an ODM UML model and implemented as RDF.
IES Versions
- IES v1 was designed to provide entity meta-data about documents. When documents are shared between organisations, IES v1 provided a standard way to list the key entities mentioned in the document and their types.
- IES v2 served the same purpose as the previous one, but added in capability to specify relationships between key entities.
- IES v3 had a rich model of entities, relationships and events.
- IES v4 was released in December 2018, and was a complete re-engineering of version 3 as a 4D Ontology using the BORO Method and taking the IDEAS Group Ontology as the inspiration
The complete version history for version 4 can be found in the IES Model Change Log.
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