Vision, Progress and Discussion: A Measurement Information Infrastructure

Abstract

What if your organization’s measurement, analysis and management computing systems spoke a shared language with other world-wide measurement-related systems? How would that affect your business? How would it ease your compliance challenges for ISO/IEC 17025 and other quality and technical documents? Imagine a set of normative standards that define data structures, taxonomies, service protocols and security for locating, communicating and sharing measurement information. Those standards comprise what we call a measurement information infrastructure, or MII. Imagine MII-aware software that would create and automatically exchange and use accreditation scopes, instrument specifications and test &calibration certificates. This open discussion panel session follows up on the "Toward a Measurement Information Infrastructure" NCSLI Metrologist column to highlight how you may participate in the real-world benefits such an MII will generate and the efforts underway to realize them. The session will also demonstrate some MII-aware software under development and provide panelists to answer questions and solicit input and discussion from the audience.