UBL Library Content Subcommittee Meeting

18 December, 2001

In attendance: Gunther Stuhec, Tim McGrath, Arofan Gregory, Peter Yim, Sue Probert, Lisa Seaburg, Marion Royal, Mike Adcock (invited guest)

1. Welcome from Chair and appointment of Secretary to take minutes

Arofan volunteered to take minutes.

Mike Adcock intends to be at next face-to-face meeting

Sue commented that Stuart Feder also said he may attend face-to-face Tim remarked that it would be useful to have more resources in the team.

2. Acceptance of previous minutes (available at http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/admindocs/minutes121101.htm ) No further additions to minutes from last meeting

3. Action arising from previous minutes:

• Tim requested to re-invite Mike Adcock to join next week's meeting as invited expert - DONE
• Arofan to provide specific examples to Dave Carlson to assist validation of his modeling work Action: Arofan to send"implicit logic" from xCBL to Dave carlson if still relevant
• Gunther will extract work from each sub-team (in their current spreadsheet format, if that's what they have been doing) to show an example of the deliverable..-DONE
• Gunther will also provide documentation for the XML structure on 12/12/01. - DONE
• Gunther has a 70-day evaluation key which he will send to LCSC members actively working on the schema now. - DONE
• Tim will ask currently inactive members of the LCSC to assist the CMSC in looking for use cases Tim sent out a request for Context use cases to go to Matt Gertner of Context Mechanism subcommitee, but there was no response. Mike Adcock will address this with use cases from related work in EWG harmonization group - Tim to give Matt Mike's contact info.

4. Reports on status of work teams

• Team 3 DeliveryDetail and PricingDetail (Gunther) Gunther has revised his submission by splitting the core components catalog out from the BIE catalog, and will send out. He has done some further work on tools as well.
• Team 1 OrderHeader and OrderSummary (Marion) Not much further work has been done, waiting for Gunther's output.
• Team 2 BaseItemDetail (Peter) Thanked Gunther for quick turn-around of work in progress; there are some questions about getting alignment within the group moving forward, but hopefully adopting the new work methodology will address these over the next few days.
• Harmonization (Tim/Lisa) The harmonization of BIEs across teams should be much simplified with the new working process. Note that Gunther's models will require some review, especially in the area of datatypes. 4. Discussion and confirmation of the methodology and objectives for future work.

5. Comments on submission from Andy Cardy of xCBL in CC format. Andy Cardy has submitted a basically un-analyzed set of BIEs in spreadsheet form derived directly from xCBL, with the division into BBIEs and ABIEs already made. This is available on website.

6. Scheduling A revised schedule is on the web page. Our next meeting is not until Jan 8. We are aiming to have enough work done at that time to assemble a draft for Order, which can be firmed up into a better library submission for the face-to-face 2 weeks later.

7. Reports on status of other UBL subcommittees

• Tools and technique sc (Arofan) The group has not beenn active and the most progress has been Gunther's work. Tools and techniques should be the owners of this material, but we will still need input into the development and use.
• Naming and design rules sc (Mark) Arofan reported on design subcommittee progress: (1) last week's meeting on naming; (2) This weeks meeting on extensions. These issues should soon be closed to provide input into library group. Arofan to report work from library group back to that group.
• Context drivers sc (Sue) Sue reports on Context Categories SC: EWG Harmonization group has moved to act in alignment with this effort in UBL, so we should see good cross-pollination here. They are aiming to have a set of basic 'business neutral', core components ready by the Barcelona EWG meeting in mid-March. Since Sue is the official UBL liason, we should expect an easy aligment in this area between these groups. We will not need to worry too much about context until we have both EWG Harmonized CCs and some BIEs from our own work, since much of what is needed for context will result in an analysis of the differences between these two. it was agreed both groups should forge ahead per current plans.
• Context methodology sc (Arofan) Arofan Reports on Context Mechanism group: They are trying to determine limitations of XSD so that its impact on a context mechanism can be assessed. This may result in impacts on BIE design, but for right now the major alignment here is with the design committee (plus use cases as noted above).

8. Update of situation with CIQ committee Jon Bosak met with the OASIS CIQ group, and we are awaiting updates. We anticipate not a lot of immediate impact, but a normal liason through UBL channels, as with other groups

9. Technical Editor's report, web site updates, etc. (Lisa) Lisa reports on web updates: everything is up-to-date as of this morning. (Decision was made not to post Gunther's stuff unitl later.)

10. Other Business Sue reports that Stuart Feder said nice things about Jon's XML 2001 presentation. Tim said he had some minor corrections.

11. Next meeting 8 January 2002 same time. - Happy Holidays to all.