OASIS / UBL - Universal Business Language Technical Committee

OASIS UBL is a Technical Committee (TC) of OASIS  The purpose of the UBL TC is to develop a standard library of XML business documents (purchase orders, invoices, etc.) by modifying an already existing library of XML schemas (xCBL) to incorporate the best features of other existing XML business libraries.

The TC will then design a mechanism for the generation of context-specific business schemas through the application of transformation rules to the common UBL source library. UBL is intended to become an international standard for electronic commerce freely available to everyone without licensing or other fees.

Subcommittees (SC)

Technical Subcommittees

UBL Context Drivers Subcommittee http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/sc.htm

No information available for the moment.

UBL Context Methodology Subcommittee (CM SC) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/cmsc

The purpose of the CM SC is to develop a methodology and tools for applying context to the core library of generic business information entities (BIEs) in order to produce contextualized BIEs, and develop initial machine-readable descriptions of context rules, in the service of helping the Library Content SC do its work.

UBL Library Content Subcommittee (LC SC) http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc

The purpose of this subcommittee is to rapidly develop standard XML business library content by taking an existing library as a starting point and modifying it to incorporate the best features of other existing business and core component libraries.

Set of deliverables:

• Create a BIE Catalog - Identifying the BIE's out of the xCBL Library.

• XML (XSD) Schemas for business document types.

• Example instance for each schema.

• Customization methodology.

• Documentation for business documents.

• Publication into Public Registries.

UBL Naming and Design Rules Subcommittee (NDR SC) http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ndrsc/

The purpose of the NDR SC is to recommend to the TC rules and guidelines for normative-form schema design, instance design, and markup naming, and write and maintain documentation of these rules and guidelines.

UBL Tools and techniques Subcommittee http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/sc.htm

No information available for the moment.

Administrative Subcommittees

UBL Liaison Subcommittee http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lsc

Industry data exchange standards organizations that have appointed liaisons to UBL include ACORD (insurance), ARTS (retail sales), e.centre (EAN.UCC), EIDX (electronics), HL7 (health care), NACS (convenience stores), RosettaNet (information technology), SWIFT (banking), UIG (utilities), VCA (prescription eyewear), UN/EDIFACT (EDI), X12 (EDI), and XBRL (accounting).

UBL Administration Subcommittee http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/sc.htm

No information available for the moment.

UBL Marketing Subcommittee http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/sc.htm

No information available for the moment.