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A Guide to the Universal Business Language
Tim McGrath, UBL
Universal Business Language (UBL) provides a robust, well-documented method
of exchanging business communication such as Order, Invoice etc. Gaining substantial
momentum in the global business community, UBL is the foundation standard for
international electronic commerce.
Prior exposure to UBL or XML is not necessary. Managers and business analysts will be able to
learn why UBL exists, what it provides and how UBL works in practice.
BIO: Tim McGrath was an active participant in the development of the
ISO 15000 (ebXML) standards. In 2005 he published (with Bob Glushko) Document
Engineering: Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services? from
MIT Press. He is currently Vice-Chair of the OASIS Universal Business Language
(UBL) Technical Committee.
Methods for XML Governance
Nick Carr, Allette Systems
XML is ideal technology for describing arbitrary data
structures and formats. Widely understood and supported, the strength of XML
is its flexibility. However, this flexibility also makes it difficult to
objectively assess of the quality of XML designs or implementations.
This tutorial will look at how opening XML design decisions to all stakeholders
can improve project governance. It will also provide techniques for non-technical
people and development staff to participate in the classification, scoping and
monitoring of XML-related development.
BIO: Nick Carr is the founder and general manager of Allette Systems,
a 17 year old systems integrator specialising in XML design, training and
implementations. Allette Systems has a long history of implementations using
standards-oriented markup languages for such organisations as the Australian
Stock Exchange, Sun Microsystems and the Singapore Attorney General's Chambers.
Office Document Standards
Rick Jelliffe, Topologi
Although ODF and ECMA Open XML are based on XML and utilise
zip container format, their design goals differ, with each holding value for
specific uses.
This tutorial will outline the fundamental concepts of Open XML and Open
Document Format, explain the focus areas for both, clarify their relevance
for both publishing and business documents. It will also highlight commonalties
and differences, and explore real life examples.
BIO: Rick Jelliffe has been heavily involved with the development of the
publishing community's key standards such as W3C XML Schema and is the author
of ISO Schematron. Rick is also a widely respected commentator on standards and
has over two decades of experience in publishing. For much of 2007, he has been
involved in writing and speaking on the topic of standards for office documents.
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