IDMP Ontology Information Sheet

The IDMP Ontology is an expert-built, vendor-neutral framework that gives medicinal product data a shared and consistent digital language across systems, companies, and borders. It is the pharmaceutical industry’s directly deployable implementation layer for the five ISO IDMP standards, owned and governed by the Pistoia Alliance as a neutral not-for-profit.

Rather than each organization interpreting the ISO standards on its own, the IDMP Ontology provides a shared structure that keeps product data consistent, connected, and interoperable for internal data management, regulatory alignment, cross-system integration, and AI-ready data.

This information sheet is a plain-language introduction for regulators, industry teams, and anyone new to the ontology.

• What the IDMP Ontology is and what makes an ontology different from a spreadsheet or database schema.
• The problems it solves, like harmonizing multiple names and IDs for the same product, and unifying interpretations of the ISO standards.
• How it’s governed: Pistoia Alliance stewardship, a vendor-neutral Steering Committee, and quarterly maintenance releases.
• How it’s used today, from EMA PMS mapping and multi-market submissions to partner data exchange and AI readiness.
• How to get started and access it: three implementation levels and the public, member, and sponsor access tiers.

Download the information sheet to learn more.