Announcements
- 26 June 2002
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Portal redesign: This portal and the
archives have been redesigned to support our ongoing and future volume of work.
Old links emanating from external sources should still work for now, but please
plan to change links to point into the new
archive.
Charter
Our approved charter wording is as follows:
The purpose of the NDR SC is to recommend to
the TC rules and guidelines for normative-form schema design, instance design,
and markup naming, and write and maintain documentation of these rules and
guidelines.
The primary deliverable of the NDR SC is a
document that provides the rules and guidelines. Auxiliary deliverables, which
may or may not be provided as part of the main document, might include analyses
of schema validator feature support and use cases that support our rules and
guidelines.
See the Schedule section below for information
about specific existing and planned outputs.
Membership
The current members are as follows (quorum is
8):
- Bill Burcham
- Mavis Cournane (co-chair,
maintainer of this page)
- Mark Crawford (co-chair, editor)
- Fabrice Desré
- Arofan Gregory
- Jessica Glace
- Michael Grimley
- Eduardo Gutentag
- Eve Maler
- Sue Probert
- Lisa Seaburg (co-chair)
- Gunther Stuhec
- Paul Thorpe
- Kris Ketels
Mailing
Lists
The ubl-ndrsc list is for use by SC
members only. Anyone can view the archive for this list at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-ndrsc.
Comments on NDR outputs should be sent to the
ubl-comment list. Anyone can post to this list, as long as they
subscribe first. Anyone can view the archive for this list at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment.
Documents
The NDR SC maintains several repositories.
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The current
documents repository contains only the most recent and/or active
revisions of NDR SC outputs; it provides an ongoing snapshot of our work. Links
are provided below to the entire contents of this repository. Consult this
repository to review and give feedback on the NDR SC work. Comments on NDR SC
outputs should be sent to the
ubl-comment@lists.oasis-open.org mailing list (you must
subscribe first) using our
issues template; fill in columns B through I.
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The archive
holds all versions of all documents produced by the NDR SC.
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The input
repository holds documents prepared by external sources that we have used in
our work. A selection of links to various inputs is provided below.
Document identifier |
Description |
Status |
Current
Documents |
wd-ublndrsc-ndrdoc-21 (
Word) |
The UBL naming and design rules document. |
This document has been updated to reflect recent discussions prior to the LCSC 0P70 release.
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CodeListModuleTemplate (
XSD) |
An XSD module demonstrating how to
construct datatypes for code lists according to our recommended practice. |
This is a first draft that initially
accompanied revision 12 of the NDR document. We expect to develop the
recommendations around documentation fields further soon. |
p-stuhec-datetime-05 (
Word) |
Paper on how to encode dates and times,
durations, and periods. |
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p-gregory-containers-02 (
Word) |
Paper on when to apply intermediate
container elements. |
This draft is fairly well developed. We
are in discussions with the Library Content SC about potential ways to apply
it, but have not reached any conclusions even within the NDR SC yet. |
draft-burcham-specialization-01 (
zip,
PDF,
Word) |
Paper on how to structure complex types
in the UBL schemas to support specialization of the sorts needed by the Context
Methodology. Includes a description of the "Paella" hybrid proposal. |
This paper has a lot of good information
in it, but recent developments on the Context Methodology may supersede it.
Keep an eye on the CM
SC portal for more information. |
draft-burcham-modnamver-05 (Word) |
Paper on modularity, namespaces, and
versioning of UBL schemas. |
This paper is active and is nearly up to
date, but not entirely so. |
p-maler-codelists-09 (
PDF,
Word) |
Paper on how to represent codes from code
lists. |
This paper is frozen. It contains the
major parts of the recommendation being made by the NDR SC and its rationales,
though further technical development is being done piecemeal on the actual rule
text. |
draft-stuhec-facets-01 (
PDF,
Word) |
Paper on how to handle simple types in
order to ensure that XSD facets can be used. |
This is an early draft, but we may freeze
it here and simply document our (fairly straightforward) recommendations
directly in the NDR document. |
p-stuhec-OO-Design-01 (Word) | Paper
on Object Oriented Design. | |
draft-gregory-embedded-01.doc
Word | Paper
on Embedded Documentation. | |
p-maler-elemreuse-01.doc
Word | Paper
on Element reuse. | |
p-larmouth-ubl-asn1-01.doc
Word | Paper
on mapping UBL to ASN1. | |
wp-ubl-codelist-01.doc
Word | White Paper on Naming and Design
Rules. | |
draft-gertner-urtypesV01.doc
Word | Paper on Context Methodology Type
Model. | |
Input
Repository |
Commerce One modnamver approach |
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Core Components catalog V1.8 |
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Other
Useful External Inputs |
W3C test collection initiative |
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Roger
Costello's schema best practices |
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi's schema dos and don'ts |
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Schedule and Minutes
We produced our first outputs, consisting of a
reviewed document outline and an initial set of position papers to be taken up
by the group, by the week of 10 December 2001. Our second output on
17 March 2002 was a set of position papers that is minimally useful for
generating schema code from the Library Content SC output. We produced a
new/revised set of outputs prior to our 3-7 June 2002 F2F meeting.
Our current
workload through the end of September 2002 involves the following topics. An A
priority means we must cover the topic before the next F2F meeting. A B
priority means we should try to cover the topic. A C priority means the topic
is optional to cover.
A NDR document improvements (review every two weeks)
A+ Embedded documentation DONE EXCEPT FOR DOCUMENTING IT
A Code lists IN PROGRESS
A Dates and times IN PROGRESS
A Nested supplementary components
A Identifier references and whether to pass content by reference
A- Local vs. global elements
B+ Containership
B Updating guiding principles
B Modnamver URN/schema location
B Referencing of content, e.g. for attachments
C Facets
C Wildcards/open content
C Nillability
C Aggregation of similar information for XPath V1.0 addressing
We meet weekly by phone. Calls are held
8:30-10:30am GMT-8 / 11:30am-1:30pm GMT-5 / 5:30-7:30pm GMT+1 on Wednesdays.
Calls are open only to members. Please contact one of the
chairs if you need call-in
information.
- F2F #1 30 October - 1 November 2001 (Menlo
Park, CA, USA):
minutes/report
- Telecon 7 November 2001:
minutes
- Telecon 14 November 2001:
minutes
- Telecon 21 November 2001:
minutes
- Telecon 28 November 2001:
minutes
- Telecon 5 December 2001:
minutes
- Telecon 12 December 2001:
minutes
- Telecon 19 December 2001:
minutes
- Telecon 2 January 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 9 January 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 16 January 2002:
minutes
- F2F #2 23 - 25 January 2002 (Menlo Park, CA,
USA):
minutes
- Telecon 30 January 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 6 February 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 13 February 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 20 February 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 27 February 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 6 March 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 13 March 2002:
minutes
- F2F #3 18 - 22 March 2002 (Barcelona, Spain,
with EWG meeting):
minutes
- Telecon 3 April 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 10 April 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 17 April 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 24 April 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 1 May 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 8 May 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 15 May 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 22 May 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 29 May 2002:
minutes
- F2F #4 3-7 June 2002 (Minneapolis, MN, USA,
with X12 meeting):
minutes, starting report, ending report, overview
- Telecon 19 June 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 26 June 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 3 July 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 10 July 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 17 July 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 24 July 2002
minutes
- Telecon 31 July 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 7 August 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 14 August 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 28 August 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 4 September 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 11 September 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 18 September 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 25 September 2002:
minutes
- F2F #5 1-4 October 2002 (Burlington, MA,
USA):
minutes
- Telecon 23 October 2002: Cancelled
- Telecon 30 October 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 6 November 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 6 November 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 13 November 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 27 November 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 4 December 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 6 November 2002:
minutes
- Telecon 15 January 2003:
minutes
- Joint NDR/LCSC Telecon 22 January 2003:
minutes
- F2F February 3 2003:
minutes
- F2F February 4 2003:
minutes
- Joint NDR/LCSC Session F2F February 4 2003:
minutes
- F2F February 5 2003:
minutes
- F2F AM February 6 2003:
minutes
- F2F PM February 6 2003:
minutes
Press
See the main
UBL page. |