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[ontolog-admin] Re: OASIS Universal Business Language 1.0

To: jon.bosak@xxxxxxx
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From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:29:41 -0700
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Jon,    (01)

That message (see: 
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg12640.html) was from a 
thread that began with someone (Leonid Ototsky) bringing up the Common 
Information Model ("CIM" ... no relations to us) in a thread "One more 
Upper Onotlogy" in the IEEE SUO (Standard Upper Ontology WG) mailing list.    (02)

Cheers.  -ppy
--    (03)


jon.bosak@xxxxxxx wrote Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:12:22 -0700 (PDT):    (04)

>>Jon,  with John Sowa endorsing UBL ... that's really something!
> 
> 
> Thanks.  Where did Sowa's comment originally appear?
> 
> Jon    (05)


>    Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:43:49 -0700
>    From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
>    CC: Jon Bosak <jon.bosak@xxxxxxx>,
>          Ontolog-Admin Forum <ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>    Leo,  Great response!  Thanks.  -ppy
> 
>    Jon,  with John Sowa endorsing UBL ... that's really something!
> 
>    Cheers.  -ppy
>    --    (06)


>    Leo Obrst wrote Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:30:54 -0400:
> 
>    > 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    (07)


>    > "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    (08)

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