U NITED N ATIONS C ENTRE F OR T RADE F ACILITATION A ND E LECTRONIC B USINESS United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UN/CEFACT UN/CEFACT Core Components Duane Nickull, CEFACT Plenary Bureau Vice-Chair,

UN/CEFACT United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business “UN/CEFACT supports activities dedicated to improving the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations, from developed, developing and transitional economies, to exchange products and relevant services effectively.”

UN/CEFACT  Mission: Trade Facilitation and eBusiness. To improve the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations, from developed, developing and transitional economies, to exchange products and relevant services effectively - and so contribute to the growth of global commerce  Focus The worldwide facilitation of national AND international transactions, through the simplification and harmonization of procedures and information flows.

UN/CEFACT Why do we need it? We Must Integrate the Information Ecosystem Impact  Developing nations excluded from benefits of global trade.  The gap between the rich and poor continues to grow.  Social impact of trade in equality affects the entire population.  Economic discrimination hurts many, major social issues. We can change it! Action  Analyze, understand key elements of global business  Develop methods and processes including technologies.  Work with other standards development organizations (SDO’s)  Ensure we have one “FREE and OPEN” set of standards to use.  Encourage technology companies to behave responsibly.  Bridge the gap between paper and electronic commerce.  Educate and build capacity for fair global trade. What we must do! Problem  Cultural differences, trade regulations, sanctions.  Technology barriers to trade.  Need to balance global trade with global security.  Not all nations have basic infrastructures.  Models, technologies constantly changing. Where we are.

UN/CEFACT UN/CEFACT Structure STRATEGY VISION TACTICAL

UN/CEFACT Agenda  What are Core Components  What problems do they solve  Who is working on Core Components  Core Components explained  What is the status  How can you use them today (scenario) Also…  Technical Slides (optional)

UN/CEFACT  Core Components are building blocks of metadata.  Each Core Component captures and declares details about a real world business concept (example – “date”)  Designed to be re-used globally.  Design time artefacts. Could aid in building XML schemas, UNeDocs code lists etc.  May be specialized for use within a certain context (example – “date” becomes “OrderDate”) NOTE: “Core Component” is used herein to cover all CC terms including ACC, BCC, ABIE, BBIE What are Core Components

UN/CEFACT Core Component concepts BIE

UN/CEFACT Data Elements build Business Messages at Design Time Name Address Phone #Company Phone # Address NameParty Party ID Invoice PO #Line ItemCost CONTEXT DateOrder.Date Business Information Entities (BIE’s)

UN/CEFACT What items do we use to describe a CC Base Data  Unique definition  UUID (DCE 128 bit algorithm format)  Data Dictionary Name  Object Class Term  Property Term  Representation Term  Data Type Meta Data (from Registry)  Owner  Version  Status  Home Registry URI  Name  Associations  Classifications  Syntax Information

UN/CEFACT Agenda  What are Core Components  What problems do they solve  Who is working on Core Components  Core Components explained  What is the status  How can you use them today (scenario) Also…  Technical Slides (optional)

UN/CEFACT Too many data standards All have different data elements! HR- XML EHD xCat UBL Rosettanet OTAIATA cXML E- construct CAT XML SMDG PIDXGCIUNe Doc XAML Open trans GMLxCBL HL7 AcordCIDXxBRLBSMLagXMLVICSSWIFTTogaf Bolero

UN/CEFACT Problem: Inconsistent use of Data Elements  Nickull, Duane A.  Mr. Nickull  Duane Nickull  D. A. Nickull  Duane A. Nickull  Duane Allan Nickull  Nickull, Duane Allan  Mr. D. Nickull  Monsieur D.A. Nickull NAME OF PERSON

UN/CEFACT Solution: Data Dictionary “Incompatibility becomes incremental rather than wholesale, i.e. the detailed points of difference are noted, rather than a whole model being dismissed as incompatible.” Data Element: Name Type: string Data Element: Date Type: integer Mask: DDMMYY Data Element: Address Type: Aggregate Data Element: Telephone Type: string

UN/CEFACT UN/CEFACT Core Components verticals eGov XML SGML X12 XMLEtc Existing Standards Reconciliation Of Data Elements EDIFACT UN/CEFACT Core Component Library

UN/CEFACT Agenda  What are Core Components  What problems do they solve  Who is working on Core Components  Core Components explained  What is the status  How can you use them today (scenario) Also…  Technical Slides (optional)

UN/CEFACT  Work started in ebXML – joint initiative between UN/CEFACT and OASIS in  After May 2001, work continued within UN/CEFACT.  UN/CEFACT TMG applied to ISO for ebXML Core Components TS v 2.01 to become fast tracked as ISO standard. Who is working on Core Components

UN/CEFACT Agenda  What are Core Components  What problems do they solve  Who is working on Core Components  Core Components explained  What is the status  How can you use them today (scenario) Also…  Technical Slides (optional)

UN/CEFACT Core Component Discovery Business Documents Country.Identifier Person.Family Name Core Component discovery process. Core Component Library Business Process are part of Context UNeDocs

UN/CEFACT Steps to identify Core Components

UN/CEFACT Using Core Components at Design Time Core Component Library New Business Process has 1.Identify Core components to use for each Business Message Business messages 2. Aggregate CC’s for each new Business Message. 3. Use context to guide refinement of CC’s into BIE’s. Express as final metadata for Business Messages.

UN/CEFACT Agenda  What are Core Components  What problems do they solve  Who is working on Core Components  Core Components explained  What is the status  How can you use them today (scenario) Also…  Technical Slides (optional)

UN/CEFACT CCTS Status  CCTS v 2.01 done and submitted to ISO for fast tracking.  UN/CEFACT ATG has CC naming and Design Rules out for review.  CCTS getting a few reference implementations and PoC’s (US, Canadian Government, Adobe, others… see next page)  First 19 Core Components expected to be ratified by CEFACT in MacLean Virginia September 2004

UN/CEFACT Agenda  What are Core Components  What problems do they solve  Who is working on Core Components  Core Components explained  What is the status  How can you use them today and tomorrow (scenario) Also…  Technical Slides (optional)

UN/CEFACT Using Core Components Today  UNeDocs instances use several pieces of information.  These are specialized Core Components, also called Business Information Entities or BIE’s.  It is possible to place UN/CEFACT Core Components into a Registry/Repository and use them for building UNeDocs today and tomorrow.  Pilot Infrastructure would need to be built

UN/CEFACT UNeDocs use of Core Components? Core Component Library (Registry) UN eDocs Example CC: Country.Identifier is associated with a list of values (UN LoCode) Update/change Requests Could be reflected real time in UN eDocs instances

UN/CEFACT Q & A  Thank you

UN/CEFACT S IMPLE, T RANSPARENT AND E FFECTIVE P ROCESSES FOR G LOBAL B USINESS.

UN/CEFACT Supplemental Technical Slides  Illustrative - for Q & A

UN/CEFACT Agenda  What are Core Components  What problems do they solve  Who is working on Core Components  Core Components explained  What is the status  How can you use them today (scenario) Also…  Technical Slides (optional)

UN/CEFACT Core Components concepts

UN/CEFACT Core Component Model

UN/CEFACT Data Element Methodology (*CCTS)

UN/CEFACT Context Declaration Mechanism

UN/CEFACT Core component to BIE  Core Components are without context  After context – become Business Information Entities.  Most data elements in existing languages are ipso facto BIE’s  UMM Business Entities are BIE’s