Standards for secure data sharing across organizations

This paper discusses standards-based approaches for secure data sharing across organizations. In particular, current standards as well as standardization trends for data integration, multimedia data management, active real-time data management, data warehousing and mining, expert data management, semantic web data management, knowledge management, visualization, metadata extraction and management, and security management for data sharing are discussed. We will illustrate the ideas with an example from emergency response and public health awareness application domain.