Re: [ubl-dev] looking for practical examples

[Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

Sorry Fulton I didn't see you email till after I'd written mine
but it looks like there is consistency between them in seeking
to cater for systems built for UBL being able to handle custom
schemas. I'm thinking maybe SET provides one benchmark to
ensure this. One SET use case if mapping between versions of
UBL
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/set/200902/threads.html#00000

I would think others are mapping between customisations or between
customisations and standard UBL schemas or even between, say
a customisation of UBL and GS1-XML which shares the implemen-
ation of CCTS. This might require that the custom schemas
implement CCTS too. It might also be helped if they implement
an NDR (naming and design rules), perhaps an extension or
adaptation of the UBL NDR, or one included in the customisation
guidelines. A test that your/my concerns are met would be to try
the SET tool which generates an ontology (OWL) from the schema.
I don't yet know how this works and SET is not yet standard but
if folk know of other such tools which might provide the use/test
case for a customisation NDR I think they would be useful and
necessary to keep the overall UBL design development ontrack to
meet real world business requirements.

Best regards

- Steve

2009/2/13 Fulton Wilcox <fulton.wilcox@coltsnecksolutions.com>:
> As perhaps exemplified by Ubercart, it may be useful to look through the
> other end of the mapping/customization telescope to see whether people can
> adapt their internal systems to UBL and related eBusiness standards.
> Ubercart has no inventory management module, so adding one is something of a
> fresh start.
>
> We are accustomed to dealing with large companies and governments with
> internal systems that define "their way", and indeed "their way" is cast in
> concrete because they cannot change their internal systems and data
> standards. Mapping and customizing UBL is therefore needed to accommodate
> "their way" and, one can hope, conceal the peculiarities of "their way" from
> their trading partners.
>
> The opposite and in many ways more promising situation is when the trading
> entity (or its software supplier) does not have a "their way" at all and may
> be open to incorporating UBL and supporting standards into an unformed or
> still malleable internal system. People are still "inventing" coding schemes
> for, say, unit of measure, because they are not aware of the advantages of
> using standards already on the shelf, especially those available at no cost.
> Many of the opportunities are in venues far afield from big name supply
> chain unstitutions, including Internet 2.0 and open source players.
>
> The question for the standards community is whether we can reach the people
> who are preparing to pour concrete and get them to internalize standards
> before they do the pour. In some situations, the opportunity might exist to
> use native UBL documents as the internal "data base."
>
> The push for internal-external convergence rather than "mapping" has to come
> from the external side, because of course internal parties have nothing on
> the shelf designed to be used by many companies.
>
>
>                                        Fulton Wilcox
>                                        Colts Neck Solutions LLC
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:53 PM
> To: ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] looking for practical examples
>
> At 2009-02-10 19:13 +0000, Stephen Green wrote:
>>1. Create a new document called, say, Inventory - with your own
>>namespace for the document but import the common schemas so
>>you can make it almost the same as the UBL Catalogue - just with
>>a new InventoryLine, like Ken says, which adds StockQuantity or
>>something like that (and maybe a few more things like that). There
>>are a few things to make the writing of the schema (like Ken, I too
>>strongly recommend keeping to a schema - testing the messages
>>that they are valid by the schema - at design stage at least). You
>>will want the extra InventoryLine and somewhere to put it in the set
>>of schemas. Maybe Ken has an opinion on whether to put this
>>aggregate in the document schema (I guess that breaks the NDR,
>>Ken) or whether to create not just a custom document schema but
>>a 'common' schema too: If the latter then maybe both a basic and
>>an aggregates common schema?
>
> Precisely!  The following is a diagram from our training material
> that we delivered in Australia in January, and is now available as
> part of the latest edition of our "Practical Universal Business
> Language Deployment" book (published today!):
>
>   http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/sales/Crane-UBLProfile/#schemasy
>
> I'm proposing to the UBL TC that these diagrams be included in the
> customization guidelines.
>
>>Those technical issues might seem overly detailed.
>
> But I think the approach is sound, which is why it is included in our
> book and training material.
>
>> > And if you can join the TC, bring in your new documents, and find others
> to
>> > collaborate with in order to come up with flexible and useful
>> configurations
>> > of those new documents, they might end up becoming UBL documents!
>
> Which was the reasoning behind creating aggregate and basic schema
> fragments analogous to those of UBL so that the business objects can
> migrate into the common library if the UBL technical committee
> chooses to effect.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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