Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 23|24 April 2007

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 24 APRIL 2007

ATTENDANCE

Jon Bosak (chair)

G. Ken Holman

Tim McGrath (vice chair)

Andy Schoka

STANDING ITEMS

Additions to the calendar:

http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm

JB: It was great meeting with the Washington DC SGML/XML

Users' Group; thanks to BH for setting this up.  Take-away

from the Collaborative Expedition Workshop: we need to work

for U.S. adoption by talking to individual agencies rather

than looking to the FEA as a top-down exercise.

Subcommittee report: PSC

TM: Meeting Monday.

Subcommittee report: TSC

AS: Nothing recently; meeting likely next week.

Review of Atlantic call

No comments.

UBL TC MEETING IN MANHATTAN 7-11 MAY 2007

Status and planning: A revised preliminary agenda containing the

results of this discussion will be made available shortly.

GKH: Have posted a number of code-list related documents in

preparation for the meeting in Manhattan:

"UBL 2.0 code list support package uploaded"

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200704/msg00024.html

First version of the CL support package; plan is to

wordsmith in Manhattan and then add to Support Page.

Contains all of the artefacts used to create the second

pass XSLT validation.

"Data entry of coded values for UBL or any XML document when

using the UBL Methodology for Code List and Value

Validation"

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200704/msg00025.html

Data entry when using the methodology: how to take

advantage of the ability to use different versions or

subsets of code lists at different places in an instance

(different dropdowns depending on where you are in the

document).

"GKH's latest thoughts on UBL modeling, deployment,

customization and minor versioning"

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200704/msg00027.html

Input on the customization document, taking into account

the discussions in Singapore regarding the distinction

between model-level compatibility and document-level

conformance; input to a unifying theory for discussion

and inclusion in the document the NDR editors are working

on.

"UBL 2.0 XPath files published with revised XPath file

document model"

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200704/msg00028.html

Revised version of the XPath files (enumeration of the

info items for all the UBL 2 document models).  The XPath

XSD has been revised to optimize file size, and now all

the XPath files in support of exhaustive enumeration are

published.

"Two new documents re: UBL Methodology for Code List and

Value Validation"

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200704/msg00031.html

These two new documents provide a case study of what

other standards efforts need to do in order to deploy

genericode and UBL's CL methodology.

ACTION: All F2F participants to have read these documents

before the meeting.

UBL TC MEETING IN EUROPE 24-28 SEPTEMBER 2007

Nothing new; location still uncertain (Stockholm vs. Madrid),

but not the schedule.

SUPPORT PAGE SUBMISSION

UBL: An Introduction

Language: Italian

Modality: class, slides, online course in preparation

Author: Arianna Brutti

This Italian-language course, sponsored by ENEA (the Italian

National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the

Environment) and funded by the government of the Emilia-Romagna

region, is free and lasts about an hour.  It can be arranged on

demand by Universities and other institutions.  Contents:

introduction to UBL (what UBL is, its objective, its approach

and its reference sources), practical use of UBL (structure of

the messages and of the component libraries, reference business

collaborations and business documents supported by UBL 2.0),

UBL contextualization (why and how).  The slides used during

the course will shortly be available online.

http://spring.bologna.enea.it/ubl-italia/imple/pgcl.asp?lingua=en&p=139&nomenu=1

AGREED to add this course to the Support Page.

AGREED to add the Code List Support Package (see above) to

the Support Page.

ACTION: JB to change the URL for the XPath files to a new

URL provided in the email noted above.

ACTION: JB to change the URL for the UBL Code List and Value

Validation Methodology from 22591 to 23703.

AGREED to add a reference to the case study (see above) to

the Support Page in the same paragraph as the reference to

the CL methodology: "related case study" (not the same as

the entry for the CL support files).

OTHER ACTION ITEMS

ACTION: TM to finish editing the Danish implementation

guidelines.

In progress.

OTHER BUSINESS

GKH: How can an observer in the TC become a voting member in an

SC?

JB: The person must change his TC status from observer to

member via the kavi interface (in order to comply with OASIS IP

policy).  This TC membership then allows him to add himself to

the SC as a voting member.  Note that voting membership in the

TC is not a prerequisite for voting membership in the SC.

TM: We have been advised that CCTS 3 is entering its second

public review period.

TM/AS: Intend to submit separate personal comments.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC