Loading UBL data dictionary into Registry

[Brad Sturtevant <sturdyworks@yahoo.com>]

I am about ready to start creating eCommerce sites for
small businesses and think that UBL standards will
offer distinct advantages. To reduce sysadmin time and
general costs I have been considering the Registry by
Sino Technologies running on a Redhat Application
Server.

http://www.sinotechnologies.com/soa.htm
https://www.redhat.com/apps/isv_catalog/results.html?vendor_id=1370&ven_name=Sino%20Technologies%20Corp.

I was wondering if anyone else has tried this approach
or could recommend it.

I think that being able to load the UBL data
dictionary into the Repository, and being able to
utilize Apache related web service components to
display and input UBL records would demonstrate a
pretty effective system.

Combining IDEs of either Eclipse or Dreamweaver with
the current OASIS registry work on SCM (i.e., the XSD
and Data Dictionary) also seems to be a real
possibility, and am wondering if someone has tried it.

Brad Sturtevant


--- "David Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info> wrote:
> Brad,
> 
> That is exactly what the current OASIS registry
> work on SCM has already defined.
> 
> The XSD for that is here:
>
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/9714/nounmetadata.xsd
> 
> and an example of USGov data dictionary items
> for eCGAP system is here:
> http://drrw.net/backup/NIH/nounexample-eCGAP.xml
> 
> Notice you can capture the BIE information, a
> form label, and then localized description
> information - along with data content
> semantics in a variety of syntax - such as
> XPath, xslt, CAM, etc.
> 
> Using the bulk loader package facilities in
> Registry it would be feasible to export the XML
> out from the UBL spreadsheet and then load that
> data dictionary in.
> 
> Enjoy, DW
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brad Sturtevant" <sturdyworks@yahoo.com>
> To: <ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 12:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] trying to resend PDF
> attachment, RE: [ubl-dev]
> feedback request on UBL with Adobe PDF example form
> 
> 
> > I am probably missing something obvious, but
> > I did want to mention that there is a UBL Data
> > Dictionary published April, 2005--I have
> > attached this Excel spreadsheet as renamed zip
> > file cd-UBL-1.0.zpi.
> >
> > It seems to have all of the standardized field
> > names for all entity records such as
> > Invoices/Line Items, etc. and a description in
> > English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese.
> >
> > In general, it would seem that the forms should
> > be using these Data Dictionary field names, and
> > a flexible design might allow official UBL data
> > dictionary names to be mapped to the divergent
> > field names on forms. The descriptions in UBL
> > data dictionary are great for clearly
> > identifying what a field name actually represents.
> >
> > Brad Sturtevant
> > Principle Technologist
> > Sturdyworks