The NIST Design Repository Project: Project Overview and Implementation Design

Published

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

Ram D. Sriram, Simon Szykman

Abstract

The NIST Design Repository Project involves research toward providing a technical foundation for the creation of design repositories? repositories of heterogeneous knowledge and data that are designed to support representation, capture, sharing, and reuse of corporate and general design knowledge. The in-frastructure being developed consists of formal representations for design artifact knowledge, web-based interfaces for creating and browsing design repositories, and facilities to allow searching of repositories using concepts that have engineering design relevance, such as product function. This document provides detailed information regarding the design, architecture, and implementation of the main components of the current Design Repository Project tool suite. Included are the project specifications, and descriptions of the architecture and the mplementation illustrated with numerous diagrams and schemata. The document is not intended to serve as an introduction to the Design Repository Project, but rather as a technical reference describing the design, rationale, and implementation of the software system developed through this effort.

Citation

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 6926

Report Number

6926

NIST Pub Series

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Pub Type

NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.6926

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Keywords

design repositories, information modeling, knowledge representation, product development, software architecture, software engineering

Citation

Sriram, R. and Szykman, S. (2002), The NIST Design Repository Project: Project Overview and Implementation Design, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.6926, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821838 (Accessed May 17, 2026)

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