eBusiness, eCommerce,
eGovernment Track
8:30
- 8:40 Welcome to E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Government Track
Canaglobe
International Inc.
8:40
- 10:00 - ebXML Registry - Understanding Its Mission and Implementations Today
David
Webber
XMLGlobal
This presentation describes the
latest developments with ebXML Registries and gives a demonstration of a Registry
system.
10:00 - 10:30
Break
Dennis E. Hamilton
NuovoDoc System Architect, http://NuovoDoc.com/
AIIM DMware Technical Coordinator, http://DMware.info/
Electronic Document Management and Record Management Systems have always dealt with varieties of metadata as a practical matter. Metadata definition and identification arises in the configuration, installation, operation, expansion, and ultimate retirement/migration of document-centric systems. EDMS and ERMS systems provide ad hoc, localized and implementation-embedded (and –specific) registries. Interoperation in any coherent way has not been a driving force. Now we are faced with the convergence and componentization of EDMS, ERMS, and Content Management. Moving from specialized and typically-custom document- and record-centric views of material, there is growing concern for adoption of metadata schemes and models that can be coordinated between elements of enterprise-wide (and broader) application systems.
This brief, high-level view identifies representative managed-document standards-development activities that presume practices for metadata definition and registration. For example, AIIM is fostering the "Functional Requirements for Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS) and Electronic Records Management Systems (ERMS)." The submitter of a document/record may need to affix metadata reflecting the different views and context of a document/record's usage. The movement of managed-document material among management regimes requires flexibility in the association of further additional metadata and appropriate preservation of the original metadata. Long-term preservation of managed materials requires an enduring scheme for registration and preservation of the metadata and document-model definitions as well.
Other representative standards projects:
· XML for Exchange of Document Images and Related Metadata. AIIM Project is developing an XML "wrapper" for exchange of document images and related metadata
· Metadata Elements in Document Imaging Environments
· Digital Preservation -- practices and standards for preservation of the digital forms of documents
· Evidentiary Support -- requirements around management of records and documents to satisfy and support evidentiary use.
·
evidentiary
use.
Marian Cody
Environmental Protection Agency, HQ
This
presentation covers security and privacy concerns the actions that are being
taken and the balance between security and usability.
Lunch
Eve
Maler
SUN
Microsystems
The Universal Business Language
(UBL) is a library of e-business building blocks and messages, along with a
customization methodology, which together enable trading partners of all sizes
and in all industry sectors across the globe to speak a common language. This talk will describe UBL, its relationship
to the ebXML Core Components data dictionary, and the way it uses
business-context metadata to allow for customization.
Break
Bob
Dragoset
National
A new effort is underway to develop
a units markup language (unitsML). It is envisioned that NIST will operate a
repository of detailed measurement unit information, to which users will encode
references via the use of namespaces and qualified names in XML attribute
values. The units repository will contain information about the dimensionality
of the units (mass, length, time, …) and conversion factors to canonical
SI units. Official abbreviations/symbols and full name will also be stored in
the repository.
Jim Clark
Microsoft
eCommerce Strategist
US-E-Business Server Management
Business agreement semantic descriptive techniques are the focus of the
international standard ISO/IEC 15944. This presentation covers Part 3, which
specifies formal descriptive techniques.
DAY 4 -
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eBusiness, eCommerce,
eGovernment Track
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Panel on Electronic Government Initiatives
Moderator: Marion Royal
United States General Services Administration
Co-Chair CIO Council chartered XML Working Group
Terry Bjornsen
Booz Allen
David Webber
XMLGlobal
This panel will discuss and present government initiatives.
The panel will present the business
analysis for a government-wide registry/repository and will be share
experiences with ebXML and government initiatives.
The XML Working Group will foster
coordination and cooperation with existing Council and other committees and
project teams to:
·
Develop
XML Best practices and Recommended Standards
·
Develop
Partnerships with Key Industry and Public Groups Developing XML Standards and
Specifications
·
Develop
Partnerships with Existing Federal "Vertical" Communities to
Accelerate the Delivery of XML Benefits, and
·
Conduct
"Results-Oriented" Education and Outreach
10:00 - 10:30
Break
10:30 -
10:30 - 11:15 AM, Data Transfer Standards for
Maritime Security
Marine
Management Technologies LLC
convenor
for ISO 16917
The events of September 11
show the need for Security Systems in the transportation industry to guard
against potential terrorist attacks. Entry ports in particular will require
screening of ships, cargo and personnel. Since the majority of international
trade is by sea, the volume of cargo traffic is such that it is impossible to
inspect every ship or cargo shipment that enters a port. The only immediate
solution lies in the use of information technology to analyze existing data
that may reveal some warnings. Many existing industry and government IT systems
can be useful to support identification of potential terrorist activities. An
International Standard, now under development by a Working Group under ISO
TC8/SC10, is addressing the problem of maritime data exchange. It is ISO/NP
16917 Data Transfer Standards for Maritime and Intermodal Transportation.
Without such an international standard, it is very difficult to get agreement
among the various stakeholders on how the data are named and structured. Such a
standard will facilitate the implementation of dictionaries covering a wide
range of security data from all the participating entities. To this end, marine
industry groups will coordinate the data dictionaries development. ISO/IEC
11179 will serve as a metadata registry for the data descriptions and data
standards.
Mike Lubash
This presentation is about business, the
semantics of business, the techniques that improve communications between
customers, and the business and technical professionals that enable
organizations to carry on collaborative commerce.
Lunch
Canaglobe
InternationalInc.
An
overview and roadmap of the standards organizations, industry alliances/groups involved
in development of specifications and standards in the area of electronic
business transactions.
Steve Mathews
Break
4:00 - 4:45 PM, Business Semantic Descriptive
Techniques: An ISO/IEC standards-based approach to IT-platform
independent and world-wide legally acceptable approach to facilitating
global eBusiness with cultural adaptability
Canaglobe
International Inc.
Emerging standards and technologies are intended to provide standard methods to exchange business messages, conduct trading relationships, communicate data in common terms, and define and register business processes as scenarios, scenario attributes and scenario components, i.e. as “objects”. These are known as “business agreement semantic descriptive techniques” and are focus of the international standard ISO/IEC 15944. Part 1 deals with Operational Aspects, Part 3 with formal descriptive techniques, and Part 4 with Economic and Accounting Ontology, a.k.a. business collaboration patterns.
Paul Levine
Telcordia
An Open-edi scenario is expected to
be specified among user groups in accordance with the scoping and Open-edi
attributes templates given in the ISO/IEC 15944-1, and to be submitted as a
candidate for a new Open-edi scenario for reuse in the open world. User groups
or parties having a need to reuse or reference an Open-edi scenario as a whole
or some component, would require that the components of Open-edi scenarios be
formally specified using an Open-edi Description Technique (OeDT), and that
they be registered. Requirements for
registering Open-edi scenario components - Scenario Attribute, Role, Information
bundle, and Semantic component - are currently under public review in CD
ISO/IEC 15944-2, Registration of Scenarios and their Components as Business
Objects.
Every application for registration
of an Open-edi scenario submitted for registration in accordance with this
ISO/IEC 15944-2 shall include Administrative information, Classification
information, and Content information. An
effective classification scheme of Open-edi scenarios and their components
provides attributes that are fundamental for their registration and reuse.
Well-organized classification attributes provide the best search criteria for
retrieving a registered scenario that is most suitable for certain business
objectives. Classification attributes
unambiguously identify the scope of registered scenarios and their components.
Reuse of registered scenarios and
their components also requires identification of administrative attributes,
e.g., ownership and location from which scenarios and their components can be
retrieved. Registration authorities
should formally maintain administrative attributes in addition to
classification attributes. In addition,
scenario content overview in terms of description and technical requirements is
essential in applying the scenarios and their components to a specific
implementation environment. Such information provides content attributes. Clear understanding of the registered
scenario descriptions would facilitate reuse of Open-edi Scenarios; therefore
the scenario contents are described in as formal a manner as possible.
This presentation describes the current understanding of registration requirements pertaining to Open-edi Scenarios and their components.
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eBusiness, eCommerce,
eGovernment Track
Hisanao
ECOM
A component is a 'building block' that contains pieces
of business information, which go together because they are about a single
concept. An example would be bank account identification, which consists of
account number and account name. Core components are components, which appear
in many different circumstances of business information and in many different
areas of business. A core component is a common or "general" building
block that basically can be used across several business sectors. One objective
is to define a process, by which information components can be discovered,
catalogued in sufficient detail and analyzed to identify which components are
core components. The creation of such a catalogue will enable interoperability
across industries that utilize electronic commerce. It is recognize that: 1)
Many business processes are fundamental in that they are used in many, if not
all, industries. Procurement, Payment, and Shipping are examples of common
business processes. 2) In many cases, detailed business information
requirements, for example those used when identifying a product, are the same,
similar or analogous across industries. 3) Within the progression of a business
process, for the same trading partners/trading community, there is significant
commonality in the information requirements. What is considered product, how it
is identified and described, etc., remains consistent across the duration of
that business process. This presentation gives an overview of core components
and work underway in this area.
William E. McCarthy
Professor Of Accounting and
The
REA (Resource-Event-Agent) enterprise ontology was first published in The
Accounting Review in 1982 as a core framework for transaction processing of
economic phenomena in a shared data environment. REA reorients transaction
modeling: (1) away from the traditional legacy view of financial-based,
single-company, and after-the-fact reporting, and (2) toward the enterprise-wide
and interconnected perspective of modern ERP and e-commerce types of
information systems. With extensions for commitments and types, REA has
become a full-fledged framework for the description of business processes, both
within and between companies. The original REA paper was based heavily on
primitives developed from a microeconomic perspective, and the extended REA
ontology of the present has the same underlying foundation.
This presentation will discuss the principles of REA, and it will outline its
use in the e-commerce standards of UN/CEFACT and ISO, as well as its use as a
framework in the development of next-generation ERP systems.
Break
Paul Levine, Telcordia
Bill McCarthy,
David Webber, xmlGlobal
This panel will discuss
the emerging standards, tools and practices for electronic business.
End of Open Forum 2003