OASIS and the Universal Business Language TC are pleased to announce that Universal Business Language Version 2.3 is now available for public review and comment.

UBL is the leading interchange format for business documents.

OASIS UBL TC chair Ken Holman has published a very interesting article on XML.org, titled "The role of UBL in disintermediating procurement and transportation processes":

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/role-ubl-disintermediating-procurement-tr...

go2UBL is a converting party. It converts a paper of pdf document into a 100% UBL 2.1 format and can deliver it to a specific location.

Since the start in 2014 go2UBL is growing fast in The Netherlands. Mostly Accountingfirm and bookkeepingsoftware parties are using go2UBL.

go2UBL can convert every type of incoming invoices, cash reciepts en e-mail orders, screenshots or declarations.

It's the next step after OCR recognition and one step before 100% UBL to UBL.

 

The first public review of the OASIS Business Document Naming and Design Rules Version 1.1 proposed OASIS Standard with new rules for creating JSON validation artefacts for JSON documents, complete with the OASIS Committee Note of all UBL 2.1 document types as JSON schemas and all UBL 2.1 example documents as JSON documents, begins February 1, 2017 and closes April 1, 2017:

https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/ubl-2-1-json-alternate-rep...

The first public review of UBL 2.2, the successor to UBL 2.1 - ISO/IEC 19845:2015, begins February 1, 2017 and closes March 17, 2017:

https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/ubl-v2-2-begins-45-day-public-review-ends-march-17th 

Last week the committee also announced the acceptance of new requirements for UBL 2.3.

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility at:

Today the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee announced a finalized work product and two public reviews of three new work products. UBL is used in transportation and in procurement by governments and companies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal_Business_Language

The finalized Business Document Naming and Design Rules Version 1.0 OASIS Standard dated 18 January 2017 was made public today at:

Thomas Fillis reports from Barcelona:

CEN/TC 434 unanimously agreed to endorse UBL and CII as the syntaxes complying with the forthcoming EN and to be listed in a specific CEN Technical Specification (TS). Once the EN and TS are published by CEN and referenced in the  Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), contracting authorities and entities in the EU will have to receive and process electronic invoices which comply with the EN and any of the two syntaxes, in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 of Directive 2014/55/EU.

 

Thanks to Tim for finding another photograph of a billboard in the Netherlands:

It complements the billboard photograph posted at:  http://ubl.xml.org/node/455

 

 

This news article is the latest update on the Australian whole-of-economy eBusiness framework. 

The officially specifications will be published in the next few weeks at http://digitalbusinesscouncil.com.au. The article omits the fact that the PEPPOL-developed OASIS standards for business discovery (SMP and SML) are also being used.

Several of the council’s members were already working on bringing the standards to life with an aggressive timeline as early as this coming September. 

I'm very proud to announce that today the UBL TC was nominated for the second time in three years for the OASIS Open Standards Cup, this time for the Outstanding Approved Standard:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201606/msg00016.html

All committee members work hard for the UBL community and I am pleased to see their efforts recognized with this nomination.

. . . . . . Ken