[use-case] #1 - eBusiness Industry Dictionary: nouns

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Organizations such as OAGi, RosettaNet, STEP

along with eGov initiatives such as MOD, DOJ, IJI

and EPR require interoperable semantics of noun

definitions for their industry domains.  OASIS TCs

such as CIQ need means to document their noun

semantics in Registry.

 

To date the Registry provides Classifications,

Taxonomies, the RIM and logical models (CCTS)

but no means to capture consistent semantics

around the physical noun details. W3C XSD schema

provides some small limited subset of this - datatype,

use, annotation, tokenized values, but much more is

required, and especially the ability to support

context driven semantics, language localization and

consistent versioning.

 

Coupled to this is the ability to support assembly

of ebusiness transaction documents from the

noun dictionary both as models (CCTS) and

physical transactions (CAM).   The ability to link

in OWL and topic maps to further add semantics

to the nouns should be part of the design

considerations, with the aim to enhance the

physical noun collections for discovery and re-use.

 

Initial deliverable is an XML instance for storing

physical noun semantics in registry that is optimized

to take best advantage of existing registry features

and enable ebusiness transaction assembly from

the noun definitions.  Multi-lingual locale support

is also required along with context driven content

semantics.

 

The XML instance will allow implementors to

have a consistent information set of nouns

across industry domains and provide the

building block for adopters to rapidly implement

ebXML Registry based dictionaries from their

existing manually managed dictionary content.