RE: [ontolog-forum] Invoice ontology and SUMO

[Greg Olsen <golsen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am a fairly new member here (first time I've had the time to respond), but since I've been working on an invoice, I thought I'd lend my voice.

 

Your definition, "An invoice is a document which is part of a financial transaction between two or more parties and is a response to an order." is good as far as it goes.  But this definition could also represent a "pay-on-receipt ship notice".  I would suggest the definition be opened up to include the following:  "An invoice is a document which is part of a financial transaction between two or more parties requiring either the payment of monies or the granting of a credit and is a response to an order."

 

A "pay-on-receipt ship notice" is a hybrid document:  it includes both a shipping notification and an invoice.  I hope I haven't muddied the waters with my definition.

 

Greg

 

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From: MDaconta@xxxxxxx [mailto:MDaconta@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:36 PM
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Subject: [ontolog-forum] Invoice ontology and SUMO

Hi All,

I am working on a first draft of an invoice ontology in
protege as an extension of (or connecting to) SUMO.

This quickly gets us into the nature of an "invoice" and
the questions we want our ontology to answer about
invoices.

My current high-level definition would be:
"An invoice is a document which is part of a financial transaction
between two or more parties and is a response to an order."

Comments/refinements on the definition welcome.  It is not meant
to be exhaustive ... just accurate enough to correctly position the
initial "bootstrap classes".

In regards to SUMO, I have downloaded the protege version and
included it in my protege project.  While clearly an invoice follows
the "physical" branch of the class hierarchy.  I did not see anything
in SUMO equal to or close to a Document.  I probably missed it.
Adam, is the concept of "Document" represented in SUMO? 

- Mike
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Michael C. Daconta
Chief Scientist, APG, McDonald Bradley, Inc.
www.daconta.net