UBL LCSC Telecon Minutes

Date: Tuesday 25, June 2002

Attendees: Lisa Seaburg, Bill Meadows, Gunther Stuhec, Sally Chan, Monica Martin, Tim McGrath, Ron Schuldt

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

2. Acceptance of previous minutes - Can not accept minutes, no quorum.

3. Action arising from previous meeting. -

• Bill Meadows will provide a recommendation on Order Response using the spreadsheet template. [Bill Meadows]. He had provided comments during the formal review period.
• Lisa Seaburg distributed the Code vs. Identifier White Paper from Mike Adcock in draft. Members are asked to provide comments. She is waiting for final version.
• Development of requirements document for Tools and Techniques [Tim McGrath and Gunther Stuhec]

4. Work plan

• Code/Identifier (Sue, Mike) - Not present to report.
• Private vs Standard Identifier (Frank, Mike, Gunther) - See comment below.
• Date/Time (Gunther,Mike) - Stuhec will distribute Date and Time White Paper (includes Mike Adcock comments). He has been concentrating on this paper rather than the Standard Identifier White Paper.
• Methodology (Bob,Tim) - McGrath will distribute the final draft of the Methodology Paper later this week. He is soliciting comments from Bob.
• Class Diagram Librarian (Frank) - Development of the Library Class Diagram is contingent on the tools. Stuhec and Frank will discuss the tools required for the library. This will assist members in developing new work products such as Order Response.
• Order Response (Bill, Lisa) - Develop the spreadsheet model for the Order Response document. Complete by the end of this week [Lisa Seaburg].
  • Facet Information can capture metadata about our business information entities (Format of a date field, for example). These can be defined in an XML syntax. Produced a matrix that shows items and the facets that could be described. Additional columns for each facet type will be added to the UBL spreadsheet. What is the syntax that will be used to describe the facets (in XML schema)? In the model, capture steps. Facets would be documented in the spreadsheet. Use a table outlining the facets to assist members in completing the spreadsheet.
• Actioning Disposition tasks (Various) - Outstanding tasks allocated
• Context Liaison (Sue) - Not present, no report.
• Modeling tools (Gunther) Requirements document for work tools – Stuhec is evaluating Rational Rose and will develop a position paper. Dave Carlson could be a resource – written a book on Rational Rose.
• Schema generator (Gunther) Update Schema Generator – Stuhec will work on this and complete by end of next week (5 July 2002). Updates will be driven by metamodel of the spreadsheet (new rules for definition of the metamodel). Configuration file will help drive schema generation. Peer review of other models
• Peer review of other models (OAG,EAN/UCC,ACORD) (ongoing)

5. Reports on status of other UBL subcommittees

• Tools and technique sc (Arofan) See previous comments.
• Naming and design rules sc (Lisa) NDR: Code and identifier paper from Library Content created concern in NDR. They understood after discussion. Modeling – collaboration with Library Content, particularly containership (Tim and Jon may develop a SWAT team to discuss common needs and division of responsibilities across subcommittees through the Chairs subcommittee (Conduct ad hoc with invited guests).
• Context drivers sc (Sue) - Not present, no report.
• Context assembly sc (Arofan) - Not present, no report.
• Liaison (Sue/Lisa) No meeting since our last report.

6. Reports on status of other related projects

• Core Component Technical Specs (Mike/Lisa) - No updates on CCTS on F2F meetings. Martin provided schedule for comment review to Seaburg (24 June 2002).

• Concerns expressed in BP-Project teams (UN/CEFACT) on modeling methodology being used by UBL. McGrath indicated that the Methodology Paper could answer several some concerns. UMM does not discuss the design of data components. Class diagram structure with rules could assist facilitate synergy to UMM. UMM is business process methodology and doesn't describe business document design. UMM doesn't specifically apply to work that we were doing. UBL does not have a fixed opinion about this and work with what gets the job done [Tim McGrath].

• Lisa Seaburg has developed an Access database to complement the spreadsheet– see if naming conventions mirror CCTS. A suggestion was made to have an Oracle database. Debbie speak to Garrett about speaking to Oracle

7. Other Business -

Desire to accelerate work in Library Content SC – concentrate Tools and Techniques to assist in development of LCSC tasks [Stuhec]. This will assist us in formalizing and completing our work.

NDR has developed a Position Paper Template and LCSC will use.

Action Items to be done before next meeting:

• Lisa: finish changes to spreadsheet, develop template for Bill to work with.
• Lisa/Bill: have Order Response spreadsheet done.
• Gunther: distribute new version of Date/Time paper.
• McGrath: distribute to LCSC first draft of Methodology paper.
• Debbie/Garrett: speak to Oracle about XML database.

8. Next meeting. Tuesday 2 July 2002