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Subject: Re: OASIS SET
Dear Hideki, Many thanks for your email and your interest in the SET TC Work. I will truly appreciate if interested colleagues join the SET TC. Here are brief answers to your points: * - Vision/Mission of SET* The purpose of this SET TC deliverable is to provide standard semantic representations of electronic document artifacts based on UN/CEFACT Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS) and hence to facilitate the development of tools to support semantic interoperability. The basic idea is to explicate the semantic information that is already given both in the CCTS and the CCTS based document standards in a standard way to make this information available for automated document interoperability tool support. Recently, we have also taken a more practical approach to the document modeling problem and have developed the iSURF eDoCreator as I have announced at the TC Web site today. * - How will SET change the way we do business* The interoperability of the electronic documents exchanged in eBusiness applications is an important problem in industry. Currently, this problem is handled by the mapping experts who understand who understand the semantic meaning of each entity in specific document schemas and define the mappings among them which is a very costly and tedious process. In order to improve electronic document interoperability, the UN/CEFACT produced the Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS) which defines a common structure and semantic properties for document artifacts. However, at present, this document content information is available only through text-based search mechanisms and tools. In SET TC, we explicate the semantics of CCTS based business document standards through a formal, machine processable language as an ontology. In this way, it becomes possible to compute a harmonized ontology, which gives the similarities among document schema ontology classes of different document standards through both the semantic properties they share and the semantic equivalences established through reasoning. However, as expected, the harmonized ontology only helps discovering the similarities of structurally and semantically equivalent elements. In order to handle the structurally different but semantically similar document artifacts, heuristic rules are developed describing the possible ways of organizing simple document artifacts into compound artifacts as defined in the CCTS methodology. Finally, the equivalences discovered among document schema ontologies are used for the semi-automated generation of XSLT definitions for the translation of document instances. Additionally, we have developed the iSURF eDoCreator. *- What would be the products that benefits from SET * Electronic Business Document modeling and mapping tools will benefit from SET TC work. Currently, we have developed a new tool set to support the SET TC goals of facilitating electronic business document interoperability. The new tool set, namely, iSURF eDoCreator provides an online common UN/CEFACT CCTS based document component modeling repository and is available from the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: http://79.125.15.30:8080/srdc/eDoCreator/ The current version of this tool integrates the machine processable version of the UBL paper-based Naming and Design rules as well as the customization guidelines. In this way, iSURF eDoCreator environment maximizes the re-use of available document building blocks and minimizes the tedious document design and customization efforts. The environment also proved to be very useful in performing the gap analysis between different customizations of UBL. The tool is currently being used as the document design tool (including XML Schema Generation) and the repository for UBL 2.1 Documents. As already mentioned, currently, the tool automates the UBL Naming and Design rules. However, if there is enough interest in the community, we intend to automate the Naming and Design Rules of some other electronic business document standards so that when it comes to document mapping between two document schemas from different document standards, rather than using some heuristic rules and reasoning, we can obtain some of the mapping information directly from the iSURF eDoCreator repository. Once again, many thanks for your interest in SET TC and I look forward to further participation. Best regards, Asuman Hideki Hiura wrote: > Hello Professor Asuman, > > I'm Hideki Hiura, currently a primary contact for Justsystems at > OASIS, mainly working on DITA, ODF, UBL. > I have not participated into SET work yet :-). > > However, I've been observing your interesting SET activitieswork > at OASIS. > > I know several people whom intrested in SET, but are kinda hesitate > to step forward. > > So I'd like to give them a quick introduction, especialy the > vision type of statements (that you must have been giving a talk > everywhere, especially in early stage of SET work) > > Would it be possible for you to give me a couple of statement > explaining a couple of key points such as follows for novices(includidng me). > - Vision/Mission of SET > - How will SET change the way we do business > - What would be the products that benefits from SET > > Founders' passion would be greatly appreciated. > I may be able to recrute some of the people who expressed their interest. > > Best Regarads, > Hideki Hiura > > -- > Hideki Hiura > hiura@{OpenI18N,linuxfoundation,unicode}.org > http://www.openi18n.org, http://linuxfoundaton.org, http://unicode.org > > > > PS. Please note the change in the phone and fax numbers. Thank you. -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Professor Asuman Dogac WWW: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/~asuman/ Director Phone: +90 (312) 210 1393, or Software R&D Center +90 (312) 210 1763 Department of Computer Eng. Fax: +90 (312) 210 1837 Middle East Technical University 06531 Ankara Turkey
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