ISO/IEC 15944-7:2009
(Main)Information technology — Business operational view — Part 7: eBusiness vocabulary
Information technology — Business operational view — Part 7: eBusiness vocabulary
ISO/IEC 15944-7:2009 provides a consolidated vocabulary of eBusiness concepts as found and defined in ISO/IEC 14662 and the existing parts of ISO/IEC 15944, namely, Parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 along with their associated terms. ISO/IEC 15944-7:2009 provides the rules, guidelines and procedures governing the formation of definitions for concepts relevant to eBusiness and choice of terms as a single, harmonized and integrated controlled vocabulary. This includes those governing multilingual expandability which incorporates and integrates cultural capability. As such, ISO/IEC 15944-7:2009 facilitates the production of human interface equivalents (HIEs) of eBusiness terms and definitions in the various official (and de facto) languages of ISO members. ISO/IEC 15944-7:2009 identifies the essential elements of an entry in this controlled vocabulary as well as their rules and specifications. It also includes rules for ensuring quality and integrity control requirement for each entry and the interworking among the entries while doing so in an IT-enabled manner. It also addresses maintenance and update procedures. ISO/IEC 15944-7:2009 is built on ISO/IEC 14662 and the existing Parts 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of ISO/IEC 15944. The exclusions which apply to one or more of these International Standards apply to ISO/IEC 15944-7:2009 ISO/IEC 15944-7:2009 does not currently support the following requirements (in no particular order): the more detailed level of rules (and possible more detailed level of granularity) for the essential elements of “eBusiness vocabulary” entry, as currently specified in 5.3; the more detailed level of rules for change management of the eBusiness vocabulary. It is most likely that these will be addressed in the second edition (and will be based on or harmonized with the rules in ISO/IEC 15944-2:2006, Clause 6.5 “Registration Status”); the inclusion of added non-essential, i.e. conditional or optional, elements for a controlled vocabulary entry; the addition of eBusiness concepts with their definitions and associated terms which are not found in ISO/IEC 14662 or any part of ISO/IEC 15944; the ability to be able to fully support the set of external constraints of jurisdictional documents pertaining to individual accessibility requirements; the provision of Human Interface Equivalents (HIEs) of jurisdictional domains which are administrative sub-divisions of a UN member state; the identification of and rules for “non-essential” or optional elements of an entry in the controlled vocabulary; the incorporation of individual accessibility requirements, (e.g. as summarized in the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons); the establishment of a Registration Authority; the development of a “template” of the nature found in the other parts of ISO/IEC 15944. It is anticipated that some or all of these requirements will be addressed in future editions of this part of ISO/IEC 15944, in companion International Standards, or in Technical Reports. ISO/IEC 15944-7:2009 does not assume nor endorse any specific system environment, database management system, database design paradigm, system development methodology, data definition language, command language, system interface, user interface, syntax, computing platform, or any technology required for implementation , i.e. it is information technology neutral. At the same time, ISO/IEC 15944-7:2009 maximizes an IT-enabled approach to its implementation and maximizes semantic interoperability.
Technologies de l'information — Vue opérationnelle d'affaires — Partie 7: Vocabulaire e-affaires
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INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 15944-7
First edition
2009-12-01
Information technology — Business
Operational View —
Part 7:
eBusiness vocabulary
Technologies de l'information — Vue opérationnelle d'affaires —
Partie 7: Vocabulaire e-affaires
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Contents Page
Foreword. v
0 Introduction. vi
1 Scope. 1
1.1 Statement of scope. 1
1.2 Exclusions. 1
1.3 Aspects not currently addressed. 1
1.4 IT systems environment neutrality . 2
2 Normative references. 2
3 Terms and definitions. 3
4 Abbreviations . 5
5 Fundamental Principles and Rules. 5
5.1 Introduction . 5
5.2 Principles and rules for the development of a definition for a concept and assignment of
an appropriate term in a “controlled vocabulary”. 6
5.3 Essential elements of an entry in the controlled vocabulary. 7
5.3.1 Rules governing the development of a definition for a concept . 8
5.3.2 Rules governing the assignment of a term to a concept. 12
5.3.3 Rules governing the assignment of an abbreviation (or acronym) for a concept . 14
5.3.4 Rules governing the specification of the gender of a term. 14
5.3.5 Rules for ensuring a unique composite identifier for each concept and its definition. 15
5.3.6 Rules governing the assignment of an internal eBusiness vocabulary identifier. 16
5.4 Rules governing maximization and harmonization of equal or similar concepts in different
standards. 17
6 Rules governing development of multilingual equivalents for eBusiness vocabulary
entries . 18
6.1 Introduction . 18
6.2 Rules applicable to Jurisdictional Domains which are ISO/IEC JTC 1, ISO, IEC and/or ITU
P-Members. 19
6.3 Rules applicable to Jurisdictional Domains which either are not (1) ISO/IEC JTC 1, ISO,
IEC and/or ITU P-members; or either categories. 19
6.4 Establishing and developing HIEs for definitions of concepts and their assigned terms as
well as abbreviations. 20
7 Rules governing the structure and presentation of the eBusiness vocabulary in a HIE
context as additional Annexes to this part of ISO/IEC 15944 . 21
8 RULES GOVERNING THE MAINTENANCE OF THE eBUSINESS VOCABULARY IN A HIE
CONTEXT. 23
8.1 Introduction . 23
8.2 eBusiness vocabulary Repository. 24
8.3 Rules governing the representation and referencing of the internal eBusiness vocabulary
identifiers. 24
8.4 Rules governing the maintenance of individual entries in the eBusiness vocabulary. 24
9 List of Annexes. 25
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Annex A (normative) Consolidated list of normative references for the eBusiness vocabulary. 26
Annex B (normative) Consolidated list of abbreviations . 30
Annex C (normative) Consolidated summary list of eBusiness vocabulary entries by source
referenced. 33
Annex D (normative) Consolidated eBusiness vocabulary: ISO English and ISO French. 49
Annex E (normative) Consolidated eBusiness vocabulary: ISO English and ISO Russian . 132
Annex F (normative) Consolidated eBusiness vocabulary: ISO English and ISO Chinese . 228
Annex G (normative) Rules governing addition of HIE eBusiness vocabularies in other
languages. 308
Bibliography . 310
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Foreword
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Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
ISO/IEC 15944-7 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology,
Subcommittee SC 32, Data management and interchange.
ISO/IEC 15944 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology — Business
Operational View:
⎯ Part 1: Operational aspects of Open-edi for implementation
⎯ Part 2: Registration of scenarios and their components as business objects
⎯ Part 4: Business transaction scenarios — Accounting and economic ontology
⎯ Part 5: Identification and referencing of requirements of jurisdictional domains as sources of external
constraints
⎯ Part 6: Technical introduction to e-Business modelling [Technical Report]
⎯ Part 7: eBusiness vocabulary
When future parts of ISO/IEC 15944 are completed, terms and definitions for added concepts will be
integrated into this part of ISO/IEC 15944, either via an amendment or in the next edition.
The following parts are under preparation:
⎯ Part 3: Open-edi description techniques (OeDTs)
⎯ Part 8: Identification of privacy requirements as external constraints on business transactions
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0 Introduction
0.1 Purpose and overview
ISO/IEC 15944 focuses on the many requirements of the business operational view aspects of Open-edi in
support of electronic business transactions . These requirements need to be integrated and taken into
account in the development of business semantic descriptive techniques for modelling eBusiness transactions
and components thereof as re-useable business objects. They include:
a) commercial frameworks and associated requirements;
b) legal frameworks and associated requirements;
c) public policy requirements, particularly those of a generic nature such as consumer protection, privacy,
accommodation of handicapped/disabled persons;
d) requirements arising from the need to support cultural adaptability. These include meeting localization
and multilingual requirements (e.g. as might be required by a particular jurisdictional domain or as desired
to provide goods, a service and/or right in a particular market). In the context of making commitments, this
requires the ability to distinguish, in the development of specification of scenarios, scenario components,
and their semantics, between:
1) the use of unique, unambiguous and linguistically neutral identifiers (often as composite identifiers) at
the information technology (IT) interface level among the IT systems of participating parties on the
one hand; and, on the other,
2) their multiple human interface equivalent (HIE) expressions in a representation form appropriate to
the Persons involved in making the resulting commitments.
One of these requirements is to have explicitly stated rules and especially clear, unambiguous and complete
definitions (and their associated “terms”) of concepts essential to support BOV requirements. This is because
these definitions in support of eBusiness requirements are crucial to a harmonized approach and one which is
to be used in the making of commitments among parties to a business transaction.
A key purpose therefore of this part of ISO/IEC 15944 is to present, in a single document, a consolidated set
of all the eBusiness terms and definitions found in:
⎯ ISO/IEC 14662, Information technology — Open edi reference model, and
⎯ all parts of ISO/IEC 15944.
Another purpose of this part of ISO/IEC 15944 is to support and facilitate an IT-enabled approach to the
creation and maintenance of human interface equivalents (HIEs) for all the eBusiness terms and definitions in
multiple languages of jurisdictional domains (and especially those of ISO P-members).
See 0.1.2 and Figure 3 in ISO/IEC 15944-1:2002 for the various sources of requirements on the business operational
view (BOV) aspects of Open-edi which need to be integrated and/or taken into account in ISO/IEC 15944.
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0.2 Use of “Person”, “organization” and “party” in the context of business transaction and
commitment exchange
In electronic business transactions, whether undertaken on a for-profit or not-for-profit basis, the key element
of any type of business transaction is commitment exchange among Persons made among their Decision
Making Applications (DMAs) of the Information Technology Systems (IT Systems) acting on behalf of
“Persons”. “Persons” are the on
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