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This is the official community gathering place and information resource for the OASIS UBL (ISO/IEC 19845) International Standard. UBL defines a royalty-free library of standard electronic XML business documents such as purchase orders and invoices.

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UK National Health Service to mandate use of PEPPOL (and UBL) messaging

News: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Tue, 2014-05-13 01:49. Last updated on Tue, 2014-05-13 02:02.

 

A tutorial for creating schemas following UBL NDR

News: Submitted by gkholman on Wed, 2014-04-09 23:55. Last updated on Wed, 2014-04-09 23:57.

UBL TC member Oriol Bausa has written a short tutorial on the use of Crane's tools to create XSD schemas from CCTS business information entities.

2014 WCO IT Conference & Exhibition

Event: Submitted by gkholman on Wed, 2014-04-02 16:45. Last updated on Wed, 2014-04-02 16:46.
Location: 
Brisbane, AU
Date: 
5 May 2014 - 7 May 2014
Event Type: 
Conference

IT4Fashion 2014, Information Technology supporting Fashion

Event: Submitted by gkholman on Fri, 2014-03-28 14:42. Last updated on Fri, 2014-03-28 14:43.
Location: 
Florence, Italy
Date: 
3 Apr 2014
Event Type: 
Conference

How UBL is impacting global supply chains with Tradeshift

News: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Sun, 2014-03-23 02:49. Last updated on Sun, 2014-03-23 03:02.

Tradeshift CEO & Co-founder, Christian Lanng recently spoke about the future of supply chains in the digital age. See the video link below...

The Meaning of UBL (continued): Do I understand you correctly?

Forum topic: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Sat, 2014-03-22 08:53. Last updated on Sat, 2014-03-22 09:09.

On 15th April 1912 the passenger ship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of nearly 1500 lives.  Some claim that communication failures were as significant as anything else in scale of the tragedy.

According to Neal McEwen writing in the Telegraph Office Magazine…

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The ‘European standard on electronic invoicing’

News: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Wed, 2014-03-19 03:33. Last updated on Wed, 2014-03-19 03:45.
European public sector to adopt a standard semantic data model for electronic invoicing

 

A few years ago I posted an article about the confusion surrounding standardizing on electronic invoice formats in Europe[1]. I am pleased to note that the European Commission has not been idle.  On March 11 2014, after several years of conferences, expert groups, forums and workshops, the European Parliament approved a new directive on electronic invoicing in public procurement[2].

 

The Meaning of UBL: The Value of a Semantic Data Model

Forum topic: Submitted by tim.mcgrath on Sat, 2014-03-01 03:06. Last updated on Thu, 2014-05-29 00:46.

There has been increasing interest in the standards community about the value and use of conceptual data models to support messaging standards – separating the conceptual business view from the technical implementation artifacts. This article supports this view using UBL as a reference. 

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CEN BII3 meeting

Event: Submitted by gkholman on Wed, 2014-02-26 16:57. Last updated on Wed, 2014-02-26 16:58.
Location: 
Stockholm, Sweden
Date: 
2 Dec 2014 - 4 Dec 2014
Event Type: 
Meeting

Exchange Summit

Event: Submitted by gkholman on Wed, 2014-02-26 16:56. Last updated on Wed, 2014-02-26 16:57.
Location: 
Barcelona, Spain
Date: 
6 Oct 2014 - 7 Oct 2014
Event Type: 
Conference
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