UBL JPLSC Report

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OASIS UBL TC Hangzhou Meeting
UBL JPLSC Report
May 9, 2005 Yukinori Saito Vice Chair of OASIS
UBL JPLSC Fuji Electric Information Service Co.,
Ltd. saito-yukinori_at_fujielectric.co.jp
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Recent Activities (F2F Meeting)
6th Meeting (2004.08.31) 7th Meeting (2004.10.19)
8th Meeting (2004.12.08) 9th
Meeting (2005.01.27) 10th Meeting (2005.03.17)

• Report of UBL TC Copenhagen meeting by Y-Saito.
• Review of Japanese translation of UBL Business
  Documents.
• Introduction of Japanese OASIS web site.
• Discussion about IPR policy of OASIS, UN/CEFACT,
  and ECOM.
• Study of BIE, Data Type, CCT, and Representation
  Term.
• Review of translation of Data Type.
• Study of UBL Code List.
• Study of relations among UBL Business documents,
  Data Type, CCT.
• Discussion and revise of the Mapping document
  from ECALGA to UBL.
• Review of Mapping Study from Japanese Major
  Business Document to UBL.
• Confirmation of the translation of UBL Data Type.
• Discussion about JPLSCs proposal to UBL TC
  regarding ECALGA.
• Mr. Naito (Osaka Institute of Technology) has
  firstly joined.
• Discussion about collaboration with Osaka
  Institute of Technology.

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Members of JPLSC
Noboru Itoh Sunbridge Solutions Corp.
Yukinori Saito Fuji Electric Information
Service Co., Ltd. Chair of SMEs EC Promotion
WG in ECOM Nobuyuki Sambuichi Hitachi Systems
and Services, Ltd. Shin Takagi Hitachi Systems
and Services, Ltd. Kentaro Ejima Infoteria
Corporation Hiroshi Naito Osaka Institute of
Technology Naomasa Hosoda NEC Soft, Ltd. Akihiro
Kawauchi Process Business Research
Institute (Observer) Keizo Okabe Sunbridge
Solutions Corp. OASIS Japanese Representative
Chair Vice Chair Members
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Translation of UBL Specifications (1/2)

• Done
• Translated by July, 2004. Now reviewing and
  revising.
• No need to translate.
• But we are studying the contents of Code List in
  order to understand UBL mechanism.
• This document is necessary for design new
  business documents and XML schema.
• We (UBL user) think that no needs to translate
  currently.
• We think that this document is necessary in case
  to understand Code lists.
• But, currently, We have no plan of translation.

Business Document Spreadsheet UBL 1.0
(index.html) Code Lists (13 xsd files) UBL
1.0 Naming and Design Rules Checklist UBL
Code List Representation
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Translation of UBL Specifications (2/2)

• This document explains customization
  methodologies in view point of XML schema.
• No needs to translate for JPLSC, because we dont
  customize UBL at XML schema level.
• We think that understanding this document may be
  necessary for UBL users. This CCT document is
  same to ebXML CCTS CCT.
• ECOM and JPLSC have no plan of translation.
• We think that understanding this document may be
  necessary for UBL users.
• We translated this document (UBL Name and
  Definition).
• We submitted the translated spreadsheet and some
  comments to UBL TC regarding UDT and SDT.
• UBL TC should follow the issue list.
• Future subject.

Guidelines For The Customization of UBL V1.0
Schema UBL-CoreComponentTypes-1.0.xls UBL-Un
specializedDatatypes-1.0.xls UBL-SpecializedDatat
ypes-1.0.xls Formatting specifications
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Mapping study from Japanese major business
document (ECALGA) to UBL

• Background and Object
• To study concretely and evaluate the use case
  and possibility of adoption of UBL in Japanese
  marketplace.
• To develop UBL subset that will be suitable to
  be used as a business document in Japan or East
  Asia.
• The most possible use case for UBL is the
  international trade. Especially, the East Asia
  countries.
• Refer to the report Mapping Study from Japanese
  Major Business Document to UBL.
• Background and Object
• Major business document in Japan
• Mapping methods
• Explanation about BIEs which are not mapped to
  UBL
• Results of mapping
• Several observations and evaluations

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Proposal to UBL TC regarding the mapping study
from ECALGA
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Related activities concerning UBL in Japan

• ECOM (Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of
  Japan)
• ECOM developed a business document named
  Business document model for the manufacturing
  domain last fiscal year. This business document
  is a subset of ECALGA.
• ECOM did mapping study from Business document
  model for the manufacturing domain (ECALGA
  based) to UBL last fiscal year.
• In this mapping studying process, ECOM developed
  a UBL subset for e-business between SMEs and big
  enterprises in Japan.
• Common XML/EDI Practice Promotion Council
• The Common XML/EDI Practice Promotion Council has
  been established in May, 2004. This council
  promote next generation common XML/EDI system for
  not only big enterprises but also SMEs.
• This council developed the Common XML/EDI
  framework standards.
• The business document in this Common XML/EDI
  framework standards is Business document model
  for the manufacturing domain (ECALGA based) and
  UBL subset.