StandardsServiceSupport

StandardsServiceSupport is a software framework that provides mechanisms to manage, validate, and facilitate adherence to industry, organizational, and regulatory standards within information systems. It acts as a middleware layer that helps services, data models, and interfaces conform to predefined standards and keeps track of versions, mappings, and certification status. The module may be deployed as a library, service, or microservice within an enterprise architecture.

Key capabilities include: standards catalog and metadata management; conformance checks and validation against standard schemas (XML, JSON, SHACL), rule-based policy enforcement; terminology and code mappings; versioning and change impact analysis; audit trails and certification workflows; and integration adapters to external standard bodies or repositories. It often provides an API surface for services to declare compliance requirements and to query available standards, mappings, or validation results.

Typical architecture consists of a Standards Repository, a Validation Engine, a Compliance/Policy Engine, a Terminology Service, a Certification Manager, and integration/adapters, plus an API layer and user interfaces for governance and reporting. Interoperability is achieved through standard data formats, APIs, and vocabularies.

Common use cases occur in sectors with strong standardization needs, such as healthcare (HL7, FHIR), finance (ISO 20022, SWIFT), and manufacturing (ISO 9001), or government data exchanges.

Implementation challenges include keeping the standards catalog current, maintaining mappings, and balancing performance with thorough validation.