Post on 12-Jan-2016
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OASISThe Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
Laura WalkerExecutive Director
OASIS
Dedicated to the Advancement of Structured Information Standards- XML - - SGML -- CGM -
OASIS
• OASIS is a member consortium dedicated to the advancement of structured Information standards, such as SGML, XML and CGM.
• Members of OASIS are providers, users and specialists of standards-based technologies and include organizations, individuals and industry groups.
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Bill SmithPresident - OASIS The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
Schemas, Vocabularies, and XML.org
Industries & XML Vocabularies
• Accounting• Content Syndication• Education• Electronic Data
Interchange• Enterprise Resource
Planning• Finance• Healthcare• Human Resources
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Insurance• News• Real Estate• Science (Math,
Genome Research, etc.)
• Travel• Web Applications
Definitions
• Schema:“a proposed arrangement”
• Vocabulary:“words used in a language …”
• Semantics:“branch of linguistics concerned with meaning”
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Concise Oxford Dictionary
Why build a schema?
• Rules– Establish a shared language– Provides platform for building distributed solutions
• Production level process control• Predictability and uniformity
– Stops surprises
• Validation• Avoid needing to infer intent from content
– Machines aren’t good at this
• Interoperability
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I will not be:
• Comparing languages– DTD– DCD– XML Data– XML Schema
• Going into deep technical detail• Judging schemas presented• Discussing Privacy laws!
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“XML Me”
• Personal Information– Name
• Laura Walker; Walker, L.; Walker, Laura, laurawalker@earthlink.net; lawalker@oasis-open.org; www.laurawalker.com
– Address– Date of Birth– National Insurance Number– History (education, work)
• Relationship with family– Spouse– Children
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“XML Me” buys...
• Banking services• Credit• Insurance• Health care• Utilities• Tax!
All include same set of core information
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“XML Me” Prefers
• Food products– Purchasing profile
• Books, audio, ……– “If you enjoyed this ….. “
• Travel– Frequent flyer– Car hire– Hotel– Restaurants w
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“XML Me” goes on a trip
• Research, book and pay on-line– Flights - frequent flyer profile– Hotel– Car hire– Insurance– Visa
• Also capture on-line information about destination– Timetables– Restaurants– Places to visit
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While travelling ….
• Lose luggage– Insurance claim
• Change existing booking• Make new bookings• Find new restaurant
– Pay e-cash– Capture details for future reference
• Learn to dive• Make new contacts• Keep in touch
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On return …..
• Decide to change job– Update resume, including new interest– Post resume
• Pay credit card– e-banking
• Join diving association– Subscription
• Update XML Me– Provide feedback to external sources
Then I decide to move to Brazil!
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“XML Me” must be:
• International• Heterogeneous, Open and Equitable• Extensible
– Capture new information and summarise old
• Human and machine readable• Usable and maintainable by others
– Aggregation and conjunction
• Reusable– Element and entity, both out and in bound
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Vocabulary Development
• Scope• Identify and build community• Develop and test• Publish• Maintain
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Consider:
• Elements, attributes and relationships• Examine application internally & externally
– Human to machine and machine to machine– Requirements down and up stream
• Look for points of interoperability and integration– Often at the portal
• Build consensus with others– Anarchy results if everyone did their own thing– HTML has made the web usable
• Do not reinvent wheel
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What is an <etap62>?
• It might mean something to your app• Does your customer understand?• Does your trading community
understand?• Does it semantically describe the data?
– Human readability– Unambiguous
• Is there an industry term?– Medical glossaries and thesauri
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Case for registry and repository
• References to existing resources– Internet string search– Printed materials
• Authenticity– Multiple copies on multiple locations– Where is latest?
• Naming– Public identifiers should be unique and meaningful
• Access– Delivery of resources as reliable as Web– “404 file not found”
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Sample schemas
Example schemas
• Published in public domain• Working to gain community consensus
– Industry partners– Industry and global ‘standards’ groups
• Share concepts– “method of payment”, “currency”, “customer”
• Have common requirements– EDI in Insurance, Healthcare, Finance, Manufacturing
• An industry may have more than one answer– Finance: FinXML, FpML, FIXML, FXRML
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Where does the work happen?
Inside the company
Foundations
Informal groupings
Industry groups
Independent industry
organisations
Global bodies/govt
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Learned societies
ACORDwww.acord.org
• Insurance industry standards association• Standards to enable and enhance
information sharing (AL3, Forms, ObjX, OLifE)– Property/casualty, POS document, common facilities, life– ANSI X12 and UN EDIFACT– Implement in COM and JAVA
• XML– Capitalise on existing standards investment– Enable distributed computing on internet– Interoperability between COM and JAVA
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ACORD - XML Adoptionwww.acord.org
• Prevent growth of non-standard schemas– Multiple, uncoordinated, more costly– Need to move fast
• XML for Life Insurance– Based on OLifE– Started Nov 98, approved June 99
• Property/casualty Insurance Dictionary– Based on AL3 & ObjX– Started May 99, completed Sept 99
• XML Transactions for e-commerce– Ongoing
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Open Travel Alliancewww.disa.org/opentravel.com/
• Travel industry one of largest e-commerce participants
• Current methods up to 30 years old– ResTeletype
– UN/EDIFACT
• “efficient and effective exchange of travel industry information via the Internet”– New products, services at lower cost
– Development of more distribution channels and choices
– Improve links between consumer, distributor and supplier
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Open Travel Alliancewww.disa.org/opentravel.com/index.htm
• Travel industry organisations– Air WG: inc. American, Delta, KLM, United,
– Hotel WG: inc. Bass, Hilton, Marriott, Swissotel
– Car WG: inc. Avis, Budget, Hertz
– Other travel WG: rail, bus, cruise
– Non-supplier: travel agents, ISPs
• Develop dictionary of common usage terms– Make better use of Internet
– Airline “passenger” = hotel “guest” = travel agency “client” = car hire “customer”
– v.1.0 in 4th quarter 99.
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RosettaNetwww.rosettanet.org
• Global non-profit consortium– e-commerce framework to align processes in IT supply chain– Amex, Cisco, Compaq, Computacenter, EDS, FedEx, IBM, Intel,
Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, SAP, …
– Server-to-server business exchange • Partner Interface Process (PIP)
– Describe transactions, business rules and models– XML document: PIP Service, Transactions, Messages and
dictionary properties– Class and sequence diagrams in UML– Validation tool– Implementation Guide– 100 defined
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RosettaNet eConcertwww.rosettanet.org
• Master dictionary (June 99)– Properties for products, partners, business transactions– Common definitions of “price”, “shipping”, “processor
speed”, “modem”, etc
• Pilot– Update catalogs and purchase products– Resourced from 15 members
• 2/2/2000– Rollout to all member companies– Encode product catalog data, exchange purchase orders,
coordinate product launches
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E-content
• HTML– Common desktop
• User support & Help systems• Interactive training• Knowledge bases• Content syndication
– Information and Content Exchange Protocol (ICE)– Managed exchange of web site assets
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HR-XMLwww.hr-xml.org
• Currently incorporating as non-profit– Recruiting and staffing– Employee benefit transactions
• Provisional schemas (Sept 99)– Job Posting– Candidate Profile– Resume w
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Common Business Library (CBL) www.marketsite.net/xml/
• Developed at Commerce One, Inc.– Proof of concept e-commerce language– Reference model
• Platform and application heterogeneity– Components communicate through shared language,
vocabulary and business concepts– Integration at semantic level
• XML Building blocks and document framework– Assemble and extend to develop XML applications– Reusability– Preserve existing EDI investments
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Common Business Library (CBL)www.marketsite.net/xml/
• Information models for generic business concepts– Business primitives: company, services, etc– Business forms: catalogs, purchase order, invoices, etc– Standard measurements: date, time, country, language, etc
• Collaboration with industry initiatives– CommerceNet’s eCo Working Group, Oasis, UN/SIMPL-EDI,
BizTalk
• Publicly available• Applied in Commerce One product
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Recent News
• eCo Interoperabilty Framework (16/10)– Part of CommerceNet eCo Framework Initiative
• ISIS XML/EDI (16/10)– Best practices for creating XML/EDI DTDs (Draft)
• Meta Data Coalition (4/10)– XML Spec. for Open Information Model– Core metadata types for operational, data
warehousing and knowledge management
• X12 form XML group (18/10)– Endorse ebXML w
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• Electronic Business XML• UN/CEFACT
– Facilitation of World Trade (EDI)
• OASIS – Advancement of Structured information Standards
(XML)
• Enabling Small & Medium Sized Enterprises
• Co-ordination of multiple initiatives
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Help!
• Not core business• Never done it before• Need special resources to:
– Research & develop– Publish– Maintain
• Are there stable standards?• How to gain acceptance of result?
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"When we teach people about XML, one of the first questions they ask is always 'where do I go to find DTD’s?’ It's a good question, and I'm delighted to see OASIS going to work on building a good answer.” -- Tim Bray - co-editor of XML1.0
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OASIS Resources
The XML Cover Page
• A comprehensive online database containing reference information and software pertaining to SGML and XML. – A News Column: “What’s New?”
– A cumulative annotated bibliography with over 2000 entries.
• “Simply, the best source of XML information and XML related news on Net. An incredible achievement.” -- Ontology.org
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XML.org
The XML Industry Portal
XML.org provides
• Input– See how others have solved ……
• Visibility/Distribution– Make my schema public– Schema resources for community
• Entry point– New participants to broad-based existing community
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XML.org - The XML Clearinghouse
• XML Catalog– Information on and links to more than 70 industry
XML specifications
• XML Publications– Submissions – Recommendations– Working Drafts
• XML Submissions Page
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XML Publications
• Understanding XML• XML for Managers• XML for Developers• XML, SGML and HTML• XML Storage Requirements• XML Schemas• Robin Cover on XML
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Recent XML.org submissions
• HR-XML– Candidate Profile– Job Posting– Resume
• Commerce One– Common Business Library (CBL)
• DataChannel– Portal Markup Language
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Technical Work
• Registry and Repository• XML table model
– Published 11/10/99
• XML Conformance Test Suite– Joint initiative with NIST– Early planning for other suites
• Schema development/maintenance– Docbook– BusinessDoc
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Registry and Repository
• Registry of XML-related entities– Including DTDs and schemas
– Enabling searching on the contents
• Registry and Repository shall:– Interoperate and cooperate with other compliant
registries and repositories
– Respond to requests for entities by their identifiers.
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Why work at OASIS?
• Wholly dedicated to structured information standards, such as XML
• Community of experts and shared interests• Non-profit, vendor-neutral• International • Open• Independent• Successful through industry-wide
collaboration
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Sponsor Members
• Adobe Systems, Inc. • AND-USA Inc. • Arbortext, Inc.• Bentley Systems • Boeing Commercial Airlines • Chrystal Software • Compaq Computers, Tandem Division • Corel • DataChannel, Inc. • Document Management Solutions,
Inc. • Dun & Bradstreet • Documentum• Enigma Incorporated • Extricity Software • Graphic Communications Association • IBM • Informix Software, Inc. • INSO Corporation • InterCAP Graphics Systems, Inc. • ISOGEN International Corp
• Interleaf Inc. • Interwoven Inc. • ITEDO Software GmbH• Keyfile Corporation • Larson Software Technology • Microsoft• NextPage LC • NIST • Object Design, Inc. • POET Software Corporation • Reed Technology • Reuters• SoftQuad Software Inc. • Software AG • STEP (Sturtz Electronic Publishing
GmbH) • Sun Microsystems • Synth-Bank • Sabre • Wavo, Inc. • Xerox Corporation • XyEnterprise Inc. • Zeh Graphic Systems, Inc.
Membership in OASIS
• Organizational• Individual
Membership in OASIS
• Organizational– Contributor 2500 USD or
5000 USD– Sponsor 9500 USD
• Individual– Associate 250 USD– Individual 250 USD
Next Steps
• Establish and work with community• Disambiguate where possible• Use semantics where appropriate• Submit your schema to XML.org
– http://www.xml.org/xmlorg_submit.htm
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The XML Accomplishment
• Freedom from control of data by tool vendors
• A level playing field for independent software developers
• Common infrastructure for e-commerce • New applications using new web
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Users are the big winners
More Information
• OASIS– http://www.oasis-open.org
• XML.org– http://xml.org
• The Cover Pages– http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/
• CGM Open– http://www.cgmopen.org
• Laura Walker, Executive Director– lawalker@oasis-open.org
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