fyi ... (01)
[ thought members here will find this post interesting and
encouraging. -ppy ] (02)
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Subject: RE: [ubl] FYI: Article - OASIS Proposes Standard for Business
Documents (But will companies adopt common language that crosses
industries?)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 08:52:56 +1000
From: "Steve Capell" <steve.capell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Grimley Michael J NPRI'" <GrimleyMJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'UBL
\(E-mail\)'" <ubl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (03)
Here's my take on that article: (04)
The value of UBL is not in the collection of horizontal documents such
as order & invoice. The value is in the naming and design rules
methodology that is harmonised with UN/CEFACT core components. OAG,
xCBL, RosettaNet, and many other horizontal and vertical standards are
also moving toward harminisation of core components. (05)
The difficulty in cross-industry collaboration is not whether the
document is this format or that (syntax issue) - the real problem is
in the meaning of the content (semantic issue). Harmonisation of
semantics through efforts such as UN/CEFACT core components (and the
W3C "semantic web" for that matter) is the key to interoperability.
UBL provides by far the best example of a message construction
methodology that leads to improved semantic interoperability. (06)
If all the different industry standards kept their libraries of
business messages but used the UBL naming & design rules as a
"reference implementation" as they move towards harmonisation of the
components (building blocks such as an <address> element) then UBL
will have been an outstanding success. (07)
Regards, (08)
Steve Capell
RedWahoo
Sydney, Australia
Tel : +61 410 437854 (09)
-----Original Message-----
From: Grimley Michael J NPRI [mailto:GrimleyMJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, 17 May 2003 3:24 AM
To: UBL (E-mail)
Subject: [ubl] FYI: Article - OASIS Proposes Standard for Business
Documents (Bu t will companies adopt common language that crosses
industries?) (010)
http://www.sdtimes.com/news/078/story3.htm (011)
Thank You,
Michael Grimley (012)
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