EGovernment Development of EBusiness Metadata Repository

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E-Government Development of E-Business Metadata
Repository

• UN/ECE Workshop on E-Government Development in
  Transition Economies
• Budapest, Hungary
• 7 November 2001

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UN/ECE TSIED Programme -Electronic Business
Metadata Repository

• Overview
• UN/ECE TSIED
• OASIS
• ebXML
• Programme Background
• Implementation Benefits
• Project Plan

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UN/ECE - TSIED

• Team of Specialists on Internet Enterprise
  Development

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UN/ECE Team of Specialists on Internet
Enterprise Development

• United Nations - Economic Commission for Europe,
  Geneva
• Committee for Trade, Industry Enterprise
  Development
• WP8 - Working Party on Industry and Enterprise
  Development

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TSIED E-Transition Programme

• Established after UN/ECE 2000 Forum on
  ECommerce for Transition Economies in the
  Digital Age
• Regular Sessions
• 1st Session, 30 Oct 2000, Geneva
• 2nd Session. 20 March 2001, Geneva
• 3rd Session, 7-8 November 2001, Budapest
• 4th Session, 11-12 February 2002, Geneva

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eBusiness Repository - Overview TSIED ebXML

• TSIED disseminates Best Practices on the use of
  the Internet for transition economies
• TSIED assists transition economy governments to
  implement Internet standards (e.g. ebXML) in
  support of EServices in the public domain
• TSIED works with European Commission on related
  E-Government projects
• eContent Project for use of public sector
  information
• TSIED works with UN/CEFACT OASIS on ebXML
  implementation projects

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TSIED E-Transition Programme

• UN/ECE Advisory Council on Digital Economy
• E-Government Development
• Internet Infrastructure Development
• E-Payment Systems Development
• UN/ECE-ITU Joint E-Learning Programme
• Virtual SME Development
• Best Practices on the Use of ebXML

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OASIS

• Organization for the Advancement of Structured
  Information Standards

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OASIS Overview

• OASIS is an international membership consortium
  dedicated to the development and deployment of
  system interoperability specifications
• Focused on industry application of structured
  information standards, such as XML and SGML.
• Members of OASIS are providers, users and
  specialists of standards-based technologies
• OASIS Members include organizations, individuals
  and industry groups.
• 400 organizational individual members
• International, Not-for-profit, Open, Independent
• Successful through industry-wide collaboration

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OASIS Technical Committees

• Access Control (XACML)
• Business Transaction Protocol (BTP)
• Conformance
• Customer Information (CIQ)
• Directory Services (DSML)
• DocBook
• ebXML CPPA
• ebXML IIC
• ebXML Messaging
• ebXML Registry/Repository
• Election Services

• Entity Resolution
• Human Markup
• Provisioning Services
• RELAX NG
• Security Services
• Topic Maps Published Subj.
• Universal Business Language
• Web Service Component Model (WSCM)
• XML Conformance
• XSLT Conformance
• CGM Open (member section)

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ebXML

• The Global Standard for Electronic Business

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What is ebXML

• Worldwide project to standardize the exchange of
  electronic business data
• XML-based infrastructure to enable consistent,
  secure and interoperable message exchange
• Supported by hundreds of industry consortia,
  standards bodies, companies and individuals from
  around the world
• Sponsored by OASIS and the United Nations CEFACT

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Main ebXML concepts

• Business Processes Defined as models, Expressed
  in XML
• Business Messages Expressed in XML
• Trading Partner Agreement Specifies parameters
  for businesses to interface with each other
  Expressed in XML
• Business Service Interface Implements Trading
  Partner Agreement Expressed in XML
• Message Services Moves the actual XML data
  between trading partners
• Registry/Repository - Provides a container for
  process models, vocabularies and partner profiles.

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eBusiness Repository

• Electronic Business Programme
• for eGovernments in
• Transition Economies

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UN/ECE TSIED Answers the Question

• What can Governments in Transition Economies do
  to Encourage Enterprise Development and Economic
  Growth Through the Adoption of International
  Standards for Electronic Business?

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eBusiness Repository - Background

• Transition economy regions quality of technology
  infrastructure necessary to support e-business
  transactions is still under development
• Most transition economy governments have
  centralized databases of registered businesses
• E-Business requires trusted sources of business
  data, usually available from government agencies
• Sustainability of business repositories requires
  access to officially maintained sources of data

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eBusiness Repository - Background

• Many transition economy governments asking TSIED
  for help in getting started now with
  e-business infrastructure projects
• Transition economy government databases of
  registered businesses provide a good foundation
  for future e-business transaction marketplaces
• Transition economy governments have allocated
  funds, but need public-private sector
  partnerships
• European Commission project funding
• NGOs to organize private industry participants
  funds

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eBusiness Repository - Types of Information

• What am I?
• Agent/object (API), document (DTD), database
  (schema)
• Who am I? TSIED E-Government Core Info
• Company name, contact, company ID (e.g. DUNS
  number, product/service categories, public key
  certificates
• What services do I offer?
• Buy, Sell, Request For Bids, Search Catalogues,
  Currency Conversation, Language Translation
• What information can I provide?
• Product list, price list, terms and conditions,
  product catalogue, order form

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eBusiness Repository Research Background

• Research development in Registries and
  Repositories is extensive
• Dublin Core Specification, 1997
• CommerceNet eCo Framework WG Spec., 1998-99
• OASIS Reg/Rep TC, 1999-2001
• ebXML Reg/Rep Project Team Spec., 1999-2001
• UDDI Specification, 2000-present
• OASIS ebXML Reg/Rep TC, 2001-present

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eBusiness Repository - Background

• Registries generally contain the meta-data (data
  about data) that provides the common structure
  definitions, along with lists of information
  types
• Repositories generally are the storehouses of the
  actual business data instances, and there can be
  different repositories of different types of
  data.

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The eCo Architecture Specification CommerceNet
eCo Framework WG 1998
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eBusiness Repository - Background

• The need for inter-operable business registries
  repositories has been recognized as a crucial
  element for global marketplaces
• European Commission endorsed the eCo
  Framework Architecture in 1998
• UN/ECE through UN/CEFACT endorsed development of
  ebXML Registry-Repository specifications

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eBusiness Repository -
Exchanges, e-markets, supply chains need
combinations of multiple Web Services

• Auction, pricing, tax computation, customs, RFP,
  RFQ, order management, content management
• No two exchanges, e-markets, supply chains will
  use the same
• Service combination
• Particular service packages.
• The complexity of this requires a common
  foundation of business data and open interfaces
• Standard interface for globally distributed
  repositories
• Minimal engineering effort to connect different
  sites

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The Internet in Recent Past
Database
FTP Server
Application
Web ServerDocuments
Web ServerDocuments
Web ServerDocuments
Application
Database
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Step 1 Metadata (XML)
Database
FTP Server
Application
Web ServerDocuments
Web ServerDocuments
Web ServerDocuments
Application
Database
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Step 2 ebXML Components
Database
FTP Server
Application
Application
Database
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Step 3 ebXML Registries/Repositories
Database
Registry
FTP Server
Application
Repository
Web ServerDocuments
Repository
Web ServerDocuments
Web ServerDocuments
Application
Database
Registry
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Step 4 Web Service Agents
Agent
Database
Registry
FTP Server
Application
Agent
Registry
Web ServerDocuments
Registry
Web ServerDocuments
Agent
Web ServerDocuments
Application
Database
Registry
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Step 4 E-Business Services
Payment Process Services
Agent
Database
Registry
FTP Server
Application
Agent
Registry
Web ServerDocuments
Registry
Web ServerDocuments
Agent
Web ServerDocuments
Application
Database
Trust Intermediaries
Registry
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ebXML Business Repository - Implementation
Benefits

• UN/ECE is in a unique position to show leadership
  in encouraging global adoption of the ebXML
  Repository standard as a foundation for
  enterprise development in the digital economy
  through
• TSIED programmes pilot projects
• European Commission projects
• UN/CEFACT OASIS cooperation
• Other UN regional commissions
• Inter-governmental NGO partners

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ebXML Business Repository - Implementation
Benefits

• TSIED E-Gov Business Repository provides single,
  trusted resource for basic information on every
  registered business within a governmental region
• Through ebXML interface, company info can be
  shared inter-operably with other organizations
• Other governmental repositories
• Chambers of Commerce
• Trade Associations
• E-Marketplaces
• Business repositories provide a foundation for
  rapid adoption of electronic business including
  e-services

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E-Government Business Repository
Internet
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ebXML Enabled E-MarketplacesebWeb Service
Integration
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ebXML Business Repository - Action Plan

• TSIED co-sponsor proof-of-concept study with
  developed country (e.g. Austria, Ireland, etc.)
• TSIED sponsor survey of transition economy
  members to gather info on business impact issues
• TSIED promote pilot projects with selected
  transition economy member governments and ebXML
  software vendors, solution providers
• TSIED cooperate with Euro Commission project for
  e-Content to link E-Gov business data to Chamber
  of Commerce Business Repositories

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Dae Won Choi UN/ECE Economic Affairs
Officer Secretariat, UN/ECE Team of Specialists
on Internet Enterprise Development daewonchoi_at_une
ce.org 41.22.917.2472

• Patrick J. Gannon
• Chair, UN/ECE Team of Specialists on
• Internet Enterprise Development
• Chairman of the Board, OASIS
• International Consultant e-Business Strategies
• gannon_at_sierra.net 1.408.242.1018