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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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UBL specifications
A library of over 2,000 XML components together with 65 business document schemas.
Online hub document: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.html
Offline package (with schemas): http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.zip
UBL 2.1 Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1) Alternative Representation Version 1.0
UBL 2.1 Unified Modeling Language (UML) Alternative Representation Version 1.0
Video guides to navigating the UBL 2.1 specifications.
About UBL
UBL, the Universal Business Language, is the product of an international effort to define a royalty-free library of standard electronic XML business documents such as purchase orders and invoices.
Online OIOUBL Dokumentation
Danish implementation of UBL customization for support of the basic procurement process. You can find all documentation in English and Danish. OIOUBL has been developed in coordination with the "North European Subset" (NES), as an initiative where the involved countries work together on content and use of the electronic business documents based on the UBL 2.0 standard.
The site immediately presents online hyperlinked documentation for the structure and purpose of all the elements in CommonLibrary and each of the 15 (used) UBL business documents.
Northern European Subset
NES is a cooperation among several European countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, UK, Finland and Iceland. The initiative comprises representation from both government and industry.
The site provides a set of specifications, that shows how the participating countries plan to apply UBL.
NES Version 2 contains a set profiles, guidelines, code lists (most useful for European countries) and validation tools.
ebXML and UBL
The ebXML suite of specifications, many of them now standardized as ISO 15000, provides a complete XML-based infrastructure that enables EDI functionality over the free Internet. UBL provides a standard data format for the messages to be exchanged in such an infrastructure; however, UBL is designed to be agnostic with respect to the infrastructure, and UBL messages can be used in a very wide range of functional contexts, from complex service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to the simple exchange of documents via email.
UBL Testimonials
This page tracks endorsements of UBL from organizations around the globe.
JustSystems
"With version 2.0, UBL becomes the
foundation for building systems that are compliant with a global
standard for business documents. JustSystems' native XML application
platform, xfy, already supports the entire set of 31 UBL 2.0 document
types, and we believe that this support will help industry adapt to UBL
2.0 and resolve real-world issues of doing business."
--Hideki
Hiura, CTO of JustSystems
Blogroll
This page provides links to blogs that relate to UBL and are hosted here or on other sites:
- ITBusiness: http://www.itbusiness.ca/author/hchatfield
Customizations
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
nor the most intelligent,
but rather the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin
UBL 2.0 Customization spreadsheets
A suite of spreadsheets modified from cs-UBL-2.0 spreadsheets
illustrating a method of expressing the catalogue of members of
UBL 2.0 that are present and absent from a particular
customization of UBL 2.0.
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