Leo, Great response! Thanks. -ppy (01)
Jon, with John Sowa endorsing UBL ... that's really something! (02)
Cheers. -ppy
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Leo Obrst wrote Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:30:54 -0400: (04)
> John,
>
> We have an open effort to ontologize at least a portion of the UBL
> spec., as part of the Ontolog group, founded by some of us (Peter Yim,
> Kurt Conrad, and I) in 2002, to address "ontologies meet business". We
> created this as an outgrowth of prior Business-to-Business ontology work
> we were involved in during the dot.com era.
>
> There are currently a few projects going on, which you can discover at
> the Ontolog web site and Wiki that Peter Yim is so graciously hosting
> at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/. The Wiki is at
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/. There, you'll see three
> projects we're working on (me personally, very little these days, but we
> have some energetic contributors such as Pat Cassidy, Adam Pease, whom
> you know from the IEEE SUO, and many others):
>
> UblOntology - UBL Ontology Project (018)
> ProtegeKIF - Protege-KIF Project (053)
> CctRepresentation - CCT-Representation: Modeling / Formalizing
> Representation of ebXML Core Component Types - Findings &
> Recommendations (071)
>
> Perhaps you and others would like to join us in this effort?
>
> I'm cc-ing the Ontolog forum, above too.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo (05)
> "John F. Sowa" wrote:
>
>>While we are thinking about various domain ontologies, I
>>would like to suggest UBL, which is an XML-based language
>>for specifying business documents that is being defined
>>by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured
>>Information Standards). Following is a brief description
>>from their web site:
>>
>> > The purpose of the OASIS UBL TC is to develop a standard
>> > library of XML business documents (purchase orders, invoices,
>> > etc.) by modifying an already existing library of XML schemas
>> > to incorporate the best features of other existing XML
>> > business libraries. The TC will then design a mechanism for
>> > the generation of context-specific business schemas through
>> > the application of transformation rules to the common UBL
>> > source library. UBL is intended to become an international
>> > standard for electronic commerce freely available to everyone
>> > without licensing or other fees.
>>
>>Following is the main web site for the UBL Technical Committee:
>>
>> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl
>> OASIS Universal Business Language TC
>>
>>And following is the May 2004 draft of the UBL specification:
>>
>> http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0/
>> Universal Business Language 1.0
>>
>>This draft defines terms by short English sentences, which are
>>not sufficiently precise or detailed to be used in the kinds
>>of ontologies we envision for the SUO. However, it shows
>>promise of becoming an important subdomain for many mainstream
>>business applications.
>>
>>Although UBL would not be part of an upper-level ontology,
>>any general-purpose ontology should have the ability to define
>>and include the UBL categories (and other business-related
>>categories) as subtypes of its upper-level categories.
>>
>>John Sowa
>
> (06)
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