Binding UMM Business Documents to a Business Document Ontology

Birgit Hofreiter
2007 2007 Inaugural IEEE-IES Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference  
UN/CEFACT's modeling methodology (UMM) is used to develop business collaboration models independent of the IT-platform. The information being exchanged is modeled by class diagrams. It is expected that later on these class diagrams are mapped to business document standards. Since it is hard to predict which standards will be dominant in the future, we do not propose direct mappings from UMM business information class diagrams to the specific business document languages. Instead we propose an
more » ... ology layer to represent the information identified in UMM. This ontology layer is based on UN/CEFACT'score components. For this purpose we have developed an RDFS schema (RDFS) for the core components meta model. Furthermore, we define a mapping from the UMM class diagram to the core component RDFS. Related Work The rapid growth in information volume makes it more and more difficult to find, organize, access and maintain the information required by users. The Semantic Web proposes enhanced information access based on machine-processable meta-data. This resulted in an increased interest of computer scientists in ontologies. However, the term ontol-
doi:10.1109/dest.2007.372048 fatcat:5qg5ob5y7bbnznh423fqcns4fa