UblOntology

UBL Ontology Project Home Page    (AZV)

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Most Critical Task(s) At Hand:    (AZW)

• Still need a community strategic plan and a ubl-ontology project plan    (AZX)
• develop funding and resources to sustain the development activities    (AZY)
• need more people to be involved in all aspects of the actual development work    (AZZ)

What's New:    (B00)

• A continuation of our planning exercise was held on our Conference_Call_2004-01-08    (B01)
• Our first face-to-face meeting is coming up -- San Francisco, Nov.5~7, 2003. See Program & Proceedings.    (B02)
• A "Tutorial on Ontology / SUMO" has been scheduled for 5.29.2003 to be given by AdamPease during our regular weekly conference call time slot. This will be done virtually. Please attend, especially if you want to take a closer look at the "nuts and bolts" of the ontology development process. Watch out for details in the ontolog-forum postings from Adam.    (B03)
• A report, summarizing the work-to-date of the [ontolog-forum] as related to UBL, was compiled by KurtConrad, released on Apr. 28, 2003 and presented by SueProbert at the UBL TC Meeting in London (during the week of Apr. 28, 2003).    (B04)
• Project officially started with kickoff meeting on Mar. 12, 2003.    (B05)
• We have tied down the Methodology (approach) that the team will be employing. See Methodology    (B06)

Key Date(s) to Note:    (B07)

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Project Mission    (B08)

• Develop a formal ontology of the UBL Business Information Entities.    (B09)
• Create an application that uses the ontology in a practical way.    (B0A)

Goals    (B0B)

Project Work-in-Progress    (B0C)

• Still in initial planning stages    (B0D)
• Provide Review / Comments to the UBL    (B0E)
• Starting formalization of UBL terms in SUO-KIF, as extensions of SUMO    (B0F)

Discussion Forum    (B0G)

• ontolog-forum archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/    (B0H)

Project Plan    (B0I)

• No project plan yet. DEVELOP ME!!    (B0J)

• Tasks    (B0K)
  • /InvoiceFormalization    (B0L)

• Sub-task Champions:    (B0M)
  • Invoice - AdamPease    (B0N)
  • Purchase Order - BillMcCarthy    (B0O)
  • Shipping Document - JohnYunker    (B0P)

The Team    (B0Q)

• KurtConrad    (B0R)
• PeterYim    (B0S)
• MichaelDaconta    (B0T)
• LeoObrst    (B0U)
• AdamPease    (B0V)
• BillMcCarthy    (B0W)
• JohnYunker    (B0X)
• PatCassidy    (B0Y)
• MonicaMartin    (B0Z)
• SueProbert    (B10)
• BobSmith    (B11)
• BoNewman    (B12)

Add your name here!!    (B13)

Scope and Use Cases    (B14)

Project Scope    (B15)

Use Cases    (B16)

• see UseCases    (B17)

• Use Case explained (ref. earlier PatCassidy / LeoObrst discussion thread)    (B18)

• Candidate Use Cases    (B19)

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  • 1. Automated Order /Invoice validation so that two software agents could participate in a UBL transaction (--BillMcCarthy / MikeDaconta; see proposal)    (B1B)

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  • 2. Proper Address Format driven by Context (--SueProbert / TimMcGrath / PeterYim see proposal)    (B1D)

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  • 3. Mapping Across Different Standards (--JohnYunker / PeterYim see proposal)    (B1F)

Methodology    (B1G)

• http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Methodology    (B1H)

Documentation    (B1I)

• Public: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/project/ubl-ontology/    (B1J)
• Team only: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/team-only/project/ubl-ontology/    (B1K)
• Work-in-Progress:    (B1L)
  • UblOntology/Invoice    (B1M)

Meetings & Conference Calls    (B1N)

• see: MeetingsCalls    (B1O)