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The exchange of product data between companies is often based on language neutral concept identifier/value pairs. Concept identifiers represent “concepts” which are described in reference dictionaries and serve as contexts for interpreting values. To make the whole e-business process more flexible, the flexible exchange of elements of reference dictionaries is essential. We propose a web service which resolves concept identifiers to their meaning and to their machine interpretable representation. To support different data models and information depths, the web service provides different response layers: location information for reference dictionaries, common terminological information (name, definition), and machine interpretable information based on different data models. (e.g. ISO13584 (PLIB), ISO15926 (RDL), ISO22745-TS (OTD), or OWL).
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Wilkes, W., Ondracek, N., Oancea, M., Seiceanu, M. (2007). Web services to resolve concept identifiers for an effective product data exchange. In: Gonçalves, R.J., Müller, J.P., Mertins, K., Zelm, M. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability II. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-858-6_91
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