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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The Commission says the aim of the rule change is to increase the use of electronic invoicing, reduce burdens on business, support small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and to help tackle fraud.
The UBL 2.0 International Data Dictionary (IDD) provides descriptions and alternate business terms in a suite of languages.
These are resources published by the UBL Technical Committee in support of working with UBL artefacts.
XPath files
These files enumerate all element and attribute information items described by the UBL 2 schemas.
UBL Maintenance Governance Procedures
This Committee Note describes the governance of the process to propose, accept and incorporate changes to the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) 2 specifications.
These resources were submitted as part of the original UBL 2.0 support page:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/28723/support.htm
UBL Northern European Subset
The Electronic Commerce Agreement is intended to serve the commercial requirements of business-to-business electronic commerce partners. It contains a basic set of provisions which can ensure that one or more electronic commercial transactions may subsequently be concluded by commercial partners within a sound legal framework.
The Model UBL Letter Agreement provides a template for contracts between trading partners who wish to treat particular UBL electronic documents as equivalent to their paper counterparts. The Model does not itself constitute a contract and should not be used without legal review, but together with the Commentary it provides a starting point for lawyers and a checklist for discussion with their clients.
Data interoperability remains an
important problem in the industry today which is handled by
the mapping experts and data consultants
who understand the semantic meaning of each entity in a specific
interface and define the mappings among different document artifacts, usually as XSLT rules.
In order to facilitate this costly and tedious process, the OASIS SET TC
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=set)
has been established.
The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC has recently approved the UBL 2.0 International Data Dictionary as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public review: The public review started 7 November 2008, and ends 6 January 2008. There is an open invitation to comment and feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not,
The European Commission IDABC eInvoicing and eOrdering project team has recently reached an important milestone: the delivery of the prototype. It allows the sending of an XML invoice to the Commission's e-PRIOR system and the automatic integration in the back-office system after a number of validations. The major next step is a real-life pilot with a number of IT suppliers.
The Universal Business Language (UBL) Guidelines for Customization Version 1.0 provides practical information for creating UBL-conformant and UBL-compatible document schemas.
