DATA PROBE: A TOOL FOR EXPRESS-BASED DATA, Proceeding of the 7th Annual Engineering Database Symposium - ASME COmuters in Engineering Conference 1993

The problem of sharing data has many facets. The need to share data across multiple enterprises, different hardware platforms, different data storage paradigms and systems, and a variety of network architectures is growing. The emerging Standard for The Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP), being developed in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), addresses this need by providing information models, called application protocols, which clearly and unambiguously describe data. The validity of these information models is essential for success in sharing data in a highly automated engineering environment.