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A survey and analysis of electronic business document standards

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No document standard is sufficient for all purposes because the requirements significantly differ among businesses, industries, and geopolitical regions. On the other hand, the ultimate aim of business document interoperability is to exchange business data among partners without any prior agreements related to the document syntax and semantics. Therefore, an important characteristic of a document standard is its ability to adapt to different contexts, its extensibility, and its customization. The UN/CEFACT Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS) is an important landmark in this direction.
In this article, we present a survey and an analysis of some of the prominent UN/CEFACT CCTS-based electronic document standards. We describe their document design principles and discuss how they handle customization and extensibility. We address their industry relevance and the recent efforts for their harmonization and convergence. We conclude by mentioning some emerging efforts for the semantic interoperability of different document standards.

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cover image ACM Computing Surveys
ACM Computing Surveys  Volume 42, Issue 3
March 2010
146 pages
ISSN:0360-0300
EISSN:1557-7341
DOI:10.1145/1670679
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Published: 29 March 2010
Accepted: 01 November 2008
Revised: 01 May 2008
Received: 01 December 2007
Published in CSUR Volume 42, Issue 3

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  1. Document Interoperability Standards
  2. Global Standards One (GS1) XML
  3. OAGIS Business Object Documents (BODs)
  4. OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL)
  5. UN/CEFACT Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS)
  6. eBusiness

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