Conformance to Standards

In this paper we present the Standards Enforcer Pattern (SEP). The remit of SEP is to enable the ontological modelling of processes, activities, operations and services that enforce guideline(s) recommended by a specific standard and need to explicitly indicate their conformance to it. The pattern allows the inclusion of minimalistic information regarding the conformance, while retaining the flexibility to extend the ontological primitives as required. As an exemplifier for the pattern, we present a use case from the algal biomass domain. We model the process of algal biomass production that enforces the Minimum Descriptive Language (MDL) standard for algal operations.