Re: [ubl-csc] [Fwd: [ubl-dev] UDEF applied to CCTS - a Proposal forAlignment]

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

We did have a presentation on UDEF and we investigated it quite 
thoroughly about 18 months ago.

our general feeling is that it duplicated the CCTS work (using a numeric 
code rather than ISO 11179) and was based on all things being 
hierarchical taxonomies (which we don't think they are).

i am pleased to see they are now working with CCTS but i am not sure 
what that really means - we only need one of these things.

i think that the Aerospace vocabulary (maybe even an ontology!) would be 
useful to UBL but they seem to have built their own NDRs so what do they 
want to align?

Anne Hendry wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Here is a recent proposal sent to ubl-dev.  I think I recall a while 
> back a discussion on UDEF, but I don't recall the outcome.  They seem 
> to be working on defining a common set of semantic definitions for 
> attributes of data elements used in business contexts, based on ISO 
> 11179 and ebXML core components naming conventions.   The issue of 
> semantic equivalency was raised recently in a clsc discussion on code 
> list requirments, and there seems to be some overlap with the tbg17 
> controlled vocabulary work, although definitions differ.  Is UDEF 
> something we want to (or are) looking into?
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [ubl-dev] UDEF applied to CCTS - a Proposal for Alignment
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:27:26 -0500
> From: "john hardin" <john@sanghainteractive.com>
> Reply-To: <john@sanghainteractive.com>
> To: <ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>, "CRAWFORD, Mark" <MCRAWFORD@lmi.org>
> CC: <dnickull@adobe.com>, <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>, 
> <kenneth.sall@gsa.gov>, <dmoberg@cyclonecommerce.com>, 
> <udef.builders@topica.com>, <ron.l.schuldt@lmco.com>, 
> <dconnelly@openapplications.org>, <mrowell@openapplications.org>, 
> <jdurand@fsw.fujitsu.com>, <david@drrw.info>, <psnack@aiag.org>
>
>
>
> Hello Mr. Crawford, and all on the ubl-dev group.
> I have been discussing with Duane Nickull and many others the 
> similarity between the Core Components work, and the UDEF (universal 
> data element framework) that has come out of the Aerospace industry, 
> and is now getting traction among a number of standards, eBusiness 
> formats and industry associations.
> Duane's suggestion was that I initiate contact with the groups that 
> are related to CCTS, and make a proposal to work together. His 
> reasoning for this was that the two efforts are very closely aligned.
> We have been working diligently to create a non-intrusive, easily 
> included approach for eBusiness formats to provide within their specs 
> (perhaps Schema, RDF or other formats). It's based on ISO 11179 and 
> utilizes alphanumeric identifiers (eg - d.t.2_6 is equivalent to 
> purchase.order.document_date). The overall concept: primary Object 
> words (eg Document, Entity, Person, Product) and Property words (eg 
> Date, Amount, Identifier) are augmented in tree form with qualifiers 
> (Order.Document) and combined together (Purchase.Order.Document_Date). 
> Each of these has an alpha or numeric signifier, which is used to 
> create the actual ID for inclusion in the eBusiness formats: d.t.2_6
>
> The UDEF was originated by Ron Schuldt, currently at Lockheed Martin, 
> to solve the integration problem of semantic equivalency.  This is 
> intended to provide a large scale solution that all can adopt, and 
> could work very well as a potential solution to the UID as proposed in 
> the CCTS work.
>
> Our outreach efforts have generated a number of active participants 
> (and good group of persons staying informed) in Aerospace, Automotive, 
> Transportation, and many leaders in eBusiness standards worlds. I'm 
> sure that most participants here would be enthusiastic about aligning 
> efforts with the CCTS work. There are significant peices of work under 
> way, for example:
>
> - the UDEF trees have been converted to XML format It can be found in 
> PPT format for readability at http://www.udef.org/education.html under 
> the UDEF 101 file download or http://www.udef.org/specdoc.html under 
> the Master Trees link
>
> - a global UDEF hosting/resolver architecture effort is about to 
> begin. A multinational .org is being finalized as the hosting agency, 
> and proposals are being submitted for the design / build phase. Use 
> Case details can be viewed at http://www.udef.org/specdoc.html under 
> the link Use Cases.
> There is detailed information available at the website referenced 
> above, and there is a white paper that I have authored at 
> http://www.sanghainteractive.com/whitepapers.html. There is a very 
> active udef.builders list where we are planning and discussing at:
> Archive -
> http://www.topica.com/lists/udef.builders/read
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> Subscribe - send mail to udef.builders-subscribe@topica.com
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> Please respond to my address and udef.builders@topica.com with 
> comments as to interest / applicability.
> Best regards, and thank you for your time.
> John
>
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