2. BIDM Standard by RIG -- Overview
Reuse Library Interoperability Group (RIG) develops standards for the interoperation of software reuse libraries.
RIG is chaired by Jim Moore from MITRE and includes some 20 organizations affiliated with DoD, NASA, NIST, software industry (IBM, Fidelity)and one university (NetLib group at University of Tennessee)
BIDM offers an object-oriented representation of software repositories in terms of Assets, Elements, Libraries, and Organizations objects.
Software packages or individual routines are represented by Asset objects.
Assets are created by Organizations, are composed of Elements (typically files) and are located in Libraries.