1. Faster data – Better data – Cheaper data
Vision of the Future NATO codification system as the foundation for the eOTD, ISO and ISO 8000
“What is impossible to do right now, but, if you could do it, would fundamentally change your business?”
1990 Joel Arthur Barker
Codification at source !
Common metadata (ISO /eOTD)
an end to data mapping
Requirement specifications (ISO /eOTD-i-xml )
an end to incomplete data
Data provenance (ISO )
an end to inaccurate information
Obtaining and managing data is expensive, very expensive. After an in depth analysis of the NCS the root cause of many of the issues that drive quality and price can be resolved through improving communications with the authoritative source of the data which in the case of item descriptions is the supplier.
Ask ( /eOTD-q-xml) and you shall receive ( /eOTD-r-xml)
Faster data – Better data – Cheaper data

2. Faster data – Better data – Cheaper data
Codification at Source Using standards to automate the data supply chain
Sub-Tier
eOTD-q-xml
eOTD-q-xml (query)
ISO
Sub
Sub-Tier
eOTD-r-xml
Data provider
Data requestor
eOTD-i-xml (data requirements statement) ISO
eOTD-r-xml (data exchange)
ISO
Faster data – Better data – Cheaper data