For organisations operating in or with the UK, BSI recommends purchasing the adopted British Standard.
This document provides a metamodel to describe the structure and semantics of an implemented form devoid of any specific, domain semantics, e.g. in healthcare, social science, e-government and e-business, or representation format so that data can be faithfully exchanged between systems and system components, and associations expressed between sets of form designs whose data can be compared, joined or composed for analysis.