Ballot: approve UBL as an OASIS Standard |
Company:
Ontopia
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Vote:
Yes
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Comment:
UBL
has defined an important set of identifiers for all kinds of subjects
related to the performance of international business. However, from the
point of view of having these widely adopted for use in other
applications, it is a pity that they are
1) extremely verbose
2) difficult to discover and interpret
We would like to see a parallel set of identifiers published as URIs
using the conventions of Published Subjects worked out by the OASIS
Published Subjects TC. We believe such identifiers would achieve far
wider adoption. As an example, compare
urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-1.0:Region
and
http://psi.oasis-open.org/UBL/Region
whereby the latter would resolve to a Published Subject Indicator (a
simple HTML page) providing the UBL Definition of "Region", Alternative
Business Terms ("LocalityName", "Economic Zone"), Examples ("European
Union"), etc.
Such an identifier would be immensely more accessible to users of both
UBL and other applications and thereby increase interoperability and
decrease the problems associated with the development of
multiple overlapping B2B ontologies and XML vocabularies.
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