61970 Meta Modeling Documents
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Purpose of this Focus Community
The purpose of this community is to define and evolve the meta modeling foundations that underpin the IEC 61970 series and the broader Common Information Model (CIM). Meta modeling provides the formal structure, rules, and methodology used to consistently define CIM classes, attributes, relationships, and inheritance across all parts of the standard. This community plays a critical role in ensuring clarity, consistency, and extensibility within the CIM framework—supporting tooling, model transformation, versioning, and semantic interoperability. By refining the UML-based modeling approach and maintaining alignment with IEC standards development practices, the 61970 Meta Modeling Focus Community enables a stable, scalable foundation for current and future utility data exchange models.
Various activities meet with various cadences:
- Biweekly (virtual): Subcommittees on use-case data modeling or testing & certification
- Monthly (virtual): General Focus Community update
- Ad-hoc (virtual): Marketing subcommittee for any upcoming User Group meetings or events
- Annually (in-person): Meet-up at one or more UCA User Group meetings
The 61970 Meta Modeling Focus Community is comprised of a diverse mix of energy industry stakeholders including electric utilities, hardware and software vendors, research labs, federal government, and consultants. These dedicated individuals contribute as they are able and participate in activities based on interest and ability.
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