OASIS The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

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, [email protected]; [email protected]; 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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ebXML

• 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

• Benefit from work already in place• Join OASIS and participate• Gain from experience of others ww

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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– [email protected]

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