OSCRE
OSCRE or Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of industry standards for data exchange. OSCRE has created and published a number of XML data schemas for defining structured data sets electronic application may use in exchanging and sharing records and data.
OSCRE - The Standards
OSCRE Data Formats
The OSCRE Standards allow different systems to communicate directly, saving time and money by eliminating the need to re-enter all that data manually each time.
The standards are a contextualised set of definitions and rules that facilitate the automatic transfer of data between different software packages.
Our methodology is process centric and focuses on data exchanges within the business process, encoded using XML.
But the standard is more than a set of XML schemas.
In order to successfully communicate, parties need to agree the meanings of terminology. Our approach allows us to capture these definitions in a structured manner, independently of the final representation in XML.
OSCRE - The Organization
Membership Levels
- Executive
- Associate
- Small Business
Executive Members
- BOMA International
- CB Richard Ellis Inc.
- Cisco
- CoreNet Global
- Deloitte Consulting
- IFMA
- Intuit Real Estate Solutions
- National Association of Realtors (r)
- Public Works & Government Services Canada
- US Department Of Defense
Associate Members
- Accenture Inc.
- Bank of America
- FM Systems
- Tririga
- Virtual Premise 1
- VFA
Board of Directors
- Dave Clute (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
- Henry Chamberlain (BOMA International)
- Maria Sicola (Cushman & Wakefield)
- David Brady (IFMA)
- Mark Lesswing (National Association of Realtors)
- Brad Setser (Yardi Systems, Inc.)
- John J. Hall (Prudential Mortgage Capital Corporation)
- Andrew Millar (Brookfield Lepage Johnson Controls)
- Bruce Kellog (OSCRE)
- Jim Young (Realcomm)
- Ed Lubieniecki (Real Foundations)
- Diane Herdt (US General Services Administration)
- Peter Linkletter (Public Works & Government Services Canada)
- Ray Wong (CB Richard Ellis)
- John Urubek (Appraisal Institute)
- Robert Toothaker (Institute of Real Estate Management)
See also
- EbXML – a UN standard for business transactions.
- XML – a meta-language for expressing standards.
- OASIS – a standards body.
- LIXI – a counterpart to OSCRE in the Australian market.
- MISMO – an affiliated standards body in the US property market.