Reply To: The UK Government Information Exchange Standard (IES) – request for a copy

[neil harrison]

Hi Andy

The IES standard that I have is only 185 pages, I see that your copy is 282 pages so I’m not sure what’s happened there.

I understand your task and I can see your engagement with this document.  The architectural views I have are not going to be relevant to your work I’d say.   In my context the Data that I’m interested in exchanging between organisations, is to do with the nature of the “product or service” they are providing and not the operational data exchanges. So its one of those things.  It is hard to know what a document will contain all you have to go on is the statement:

“The IES standard is used by Government departments and agencies within the UK for the exchange of data”

 

I was casting a wide next and thinking perhaps that the term “Data” could have meant design architectures, user manuals, information protocols etc. which I suggest are all needed for us to achieve Digital Twin objectives. 

In the end the IES wasn’t the backbone document I was hoping it would be.

BR

Neil