Issues
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Projects and related initiative
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Principia of the Moda-ML initiative
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Principia of the Moda-ML initiative
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- Solutions for business and system integration must be focused to large
and small enterprises together.
- Integration requires the adoption of public and agreeded standards
for information exchange, they must be freely available to the firms of
different countries.
- The proposed approach supports the direct peer-to-peer exchange
between firms, center of services or mediators is allowed but is not a
requirement.
- The integration between firms is built starting from a specific
sectorial perspective.
- Building the Moda-ML framework the following choices have been done:
- Data exchanges are based on electronic documents (messagges) using XML.
A different template of message for each different transaction (EDI using
XML).
- Use of international terminology and coding (ISo, etc.) as much as
possible.
- The XML documents are modular and human - readable (well structured and
with tag names understandable), not only machine - readable. and machine -
processable (thus with large use of list of predefined values and few spaces
for natural languages and its ambiguity)
- Use of the standard tools/languages of W3C to manipulate and validate
the documents, based on XML Schema, X-Path, etc. Specific document templates
are built for different business to reduce uncertainty and to make more
constraining the automatic validation based on XML Schema
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Sample of EDI/XML data exchange sequence
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