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 Thanks for the reply David - it's going really, really well. The UDEF is currently entirely DTDs as individual object or property trees and all the qualifiers as children. Using XSLT and other XML tools (XPath, etc) it can be resolved into any number of formats (as planned) and also into a rendered GUI to provide web based browsing and other tools, as described here: Re; progress and the near future for UDEF - The IP owners (aia-aerospace.org and afei.org) have been working diligently to find a permanent, royalty-free home where they can establish the UDEF reg/rep, which is basically a home for the UDEF trees that are now expressed in DTD, along with a suite of applications designed for a variety of user types to use in creating UDEF IDs for addition to thier formats, or suggesting additions to the UDEF trees so that the data element concepts that are missing can be represented. User types range from enterprise IT shops, software vendors, individuals, standards and industry bodies. All will have free access and royalty free use of the tools to browse the trees, suggest additions (which will be reviewed by a domain expert group of peers before addition), and resulting ID's. There will also be a registry for libraries, ontologies, taxonomies, etc... which have been UDEF enabled (UDEF'ized...) where the standards bodies, IT shops, etc, can place their schemas, DTD's, RDF's, OWL's, etc. for use by either public or authorized groups. This meant to foster the entire effort and provide integration engineers with access to the formats that they need in order to create more agile and (hopefully, eventually) nearly automate integration tasks. That's my personal goal... probably un-reachable, but then again... The Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org) is in the process of reviewing the requirements for potentially becoming that host. Once the host is selected, there will be a build effort to create the reg/rep, and then enlist the subject matter / domain experts to use the admin interfaces in an effort to round out the trees so that they provide all data element concepts required in each industry. This is a huge effort overall, but gaining massive amounts of steam, with cross-industry, huge-enterprise and standards body support. We envision the day when simple matching tools and the UDEF enabled XML, RDF or other formats are used to provide a very much easier integration mapping paradigm. Joining the Open Group udef group is free at http://www.opengroup.org/projects/udef/. Persons that are interested in helping build out the trees should contact ron.l.schuldt@l... and/or chris.harding@o... More detail on the actual trees themselves and the architectural design / use cases up to this point can be seen at http://udef.org/specdoc.html ~~~~~~~~~ john c hardin Chair - OASIS ebSOA TC - http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ebsoa CIO - http://www.crossconnections.ws Founder - http://www.sanghainteractive.com 313.930.5323 cell mailto:john@c... "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962 David Lyon wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 9:24 pm, john c hardin wrote: > >>Hey guys, take a look at the http://www.udef.org >>and http://www.opengroup.org/projects/udef/ >> >>It is built to cross domains, in a very format independent way, meaning >>that it can be included in any format as an attribute, for example: >> >><poid udefid=d.t.2_8> is the same data element as >> >><buyerordernumber udefid=d.t.2_8> which is the same as >> >><purordnum udefid=d.t.2_8> >> >> >>d.t.2_8 is literally translated purchase.order.document_number >> >>There are 16 object words, and 18 property words, with trees of qualifiers >>under each word, making it possible to string together nearly any >>combination, to define any data element concept (semantics and context). It >>is infinitely extensible. > > > It looks extremely powerful. > > How is that project going these days? > -- ~~~~~~~~~ john c hardin CIO - crossconnections.ws 313.930.5323 cell mailto:john@c... "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962 
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