Meeting minutes of 8 Dec 2005 UBL Transport Subcommittee

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MINUTES OF UBL-TRANSPORT SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING

1000
- 1200 (Singapore
time) Thursday 08 December 2005 

Teleconference/Webex

 

ATTENDANCE IN SINGAPORE:

Tim McGrath
(UBL Vice Chair)

Andrew
Schoka (Information Systems Engineer (US))

Ng
Chi Yuen (CECID) 

Jern-Kuan,
Leong (CrimsonLogic)

 

ISSUES DISCUSSED:

 

 
What should be the data type for a Name attribute? Text
     or Name?  For example, in the case of Goods Item should it be of type
     text to be the same as the Item name? TM remarked that there is some
     inconsistency across UBL which needs to be addressed. There is also the
     question of cardinality of attributes; should all attributes have a
     cardinality of 1 or 0..1 ? A decision should be applicable over all the
     UBL work; therefore a topic of discussion on the UBL TC telecons. 

 
Document spreadsheets and related model diagrams (Freight
     Invoice, Packing List, Bill of Lading, Forwarding Instruction, Certificate
     of Origin, Certificate of Origin Application) were reviewed and updated
     for the following aspects: Number of attributes matched, number of
     associations matched, names of attributes and associations matched,
     cardinality checked, Version checked as 2.0. TM remarked that PSC has a
     template for the sequence of attributes and their names which should be
     used for all documents. Directionality of arrows needs to be updated and
     made aggregates.

 
Regarding FI, TM asserted that there should be one
     invoice for one shipment and one delivery. Document reference was expanded
     as associations for each kind of reference. Party was reworked to
     introduce customer and supplier.

 
Regarding PL, there should be one packing list per
     shipment.

 
References to UN/TDED are still needed in the
     spreadsheets. TM could do this as part of the consolidation process. 

 
Signature is still a work in progress. Refer to TM email
     regarding proposal on attachments. TSC is proposing an implementation
     based on a W3C stereotype package. 

 
Next step is to merge the spreadsheets with the rest of
     the UBL 2.0 Library. Goal is to distribute a consolidated spreadsheet by
     this time next week. Plan is to complete as much as possible by 23
     December to allow a TSC “sanity check” to take place over the
     following week. Intent is to assemble a package for submission to OASIS in
     first week of January.

 
Next TSC meeting should focus on the process models and
     the UML diagrams.

ACTION ITEMS:

 
TM to present Name data type issue on UBL telecom.

 
TM to add TDED references to document spreadsheets
     during consolidation.

Next Meeting Schedule : 

Use WebEx for web conference for purpose of sharing of screen
to facilitate modification to data model and spreadsheet immediately. Please
sent your email address to me if you are interested to participate in the WebEx
sharing session during the next scheduled teleconference. So that we would be
able to assign IDs to all parties.

 

12
December 2005 SGT 1000

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Conference
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