Technical Details of BIDM Standard
Assets are described by a set of (textual string) attributes such as:
Name, Abstract, Cost, DateOfInformation, Domain, Keywords, Language,Restrictions, SecurityClassification, TargetEnvironment, UniqueID,Version, VersionDate.
Specific implementations (such as NHSE RIB) can extend RIB classes and contribute new custom attributes.
RIG specifies also two possible formats for the Web bindings of the BIDM:
- HTML header files (where attribute/value pairs are represented as name/content entries of the HTML <META> tag)
- dedicated SGML files
Meta-files describing individual assets or the whole catalogs(via HTML or SGML formats) can be linked or moved between individual repositories, thereby supporting interoperability.
- This mechanism is used by the NHSE RIB interoperability model.