ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 11179-5 Third edition 2015-04-01 Information technology Metadata registries (MDR) - Part 5: Naming principles Technologies de I'information -Registres de métadonnées (RM)- Partie5:Principesdedenomination Reference number IS0/IEC 11179-5:2015(E) IEC IS @IS0/IEC2015 IS0/IEC11179-5:2015(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT IS0/IEC2015 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission.Permission can be requested from either Iso at the address below or Iso's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 : CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland IS0/IEC 2015 -All rights reserved nization for Standardization IS0/IEC11179-5:2015(E) Contents Page Foreword .iv Introduction .V 1 Scope. .1 2 Conformance .1 2.1 Conformity for registries. 1 2.1.1 Rulesforaconformingregistry 1 2.1.2 Rulesforastrictlyconformingregistry 1 2.2 Conformityfor systems .2 2.2.1 Rules for a conforming system. .2 2.2.2 Rulesforastrictlyconformingsystem 2 3 Normativereferences .2 4 Terms and definitions .3 5 The relationship of names and identifiers within a registry .6 6 Names. .6 7 Naming conventions .7 8 Classes in the metamodel. .7 8.1 Namespace class. 7 8.1.1 Relationshipofscopedidentifiersandnames 7 8.1.2 Uniqueness. 7 8.2 Naming convention class. .8 9 Development of naming conventions .8 9.1 Introduction 8 9.2 Scope principle. 9 9.3 Authority principle. 9 9.4 Semanticprinciple 9 9.5 Syntactic principle 9 9.6 Lexical principle 9 9.7 Uniqueness principle 9 10 Concept systemrelationshipto names .10 10.1 Concepts as higher-level classes. .10 10.2 Concepts as classification system. ..10 Annex A (informative) Example naming conventions for names within an MDR registry ..11 AnnexB (informative)ExamplenamingconventionsforAsianlanguages ..21 AnnexC (informative) Concordance table for item names ..24 Bibliography .25 nizanarsinadaien-All rightsreserved ili