Information Sharing Platforms and Related Standards

Different electronic services offered in e-banking, e-commerce, e-government, e-manufacturing, e-learning, etc. are becoming to be a part of everyday life for people everywhere. A communication portal has become universal solution in all cases from common communication between persons or information and data interchange up to e-business. For the creation of quality portal for information interchange of sensitive character, it is necessary to know standards dedicated to this purpose. The main requirement for these platforms is document and data interchange, what presumes usage of well-known and attested standards. Using the portal also imposes trust of users. One way of building the trust in a platform is usage of accepted standards. In this paper we concentrate on two groups of standards – standards for technological data and information exchange and standards for interchange security.