Welcome to the IDEAS Group Website

IDEAS is the International Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification for exchange. The purpose of the project is to develop a data exchange format for military Enterprise Architectures. The purpose is to allow seamless sharing of architectures between the partner nations regardless of which modelling tool or repository they use. The initial scope for exchange is the architectural data required to support coalition operations planning:

• Systems – communications systems, networks, software applications, etc.
• Communications links between systems.
• Information specifications – the types of information (and their security classifications) that the comms architecture will handle.
• Platforms & facilities.
• System & operational functions (activities).
• People & organizations.
• Architecture meta-data – who owns it, who was the architect, name, version, description, etc.,

The work has begun with the development of an ontology to specify the data exchange semantics. The encoding for data exchange will be RDF (XML).