DocumentCode :
2698362
Title :
A quantitative analysis of eCl@ss, UNSPSC, eOTD, and RNTD content, coverage, and maintenance
Author :
Hepp, Martin ; Leukel, Joerg ; Schmitz, Volker
Author_Institution :
Digital Enterprise Res. Inst., Innsbruck
fYear :
2005
fDate :
12-18 Oct. 2005
Firstpage :
572
Lastpage :
581
Abstract :
A significant part of data and content management in e-business scenarios deals with exchanging product-related data between business entities, and integrating them into target applications (e.g. ERP systems) or target documents (e.g. e-catalogs) at the recipient´s side. Content integration tasks can be much better automated if the textual descriptions are augmented by a machine-readable representation of the semantics. For this purpose, categorization standards for products and services, like UNSPSC, eCl@ss, eOTD, or the Rosettanet Technical Dictionary (RNTD) are widely in use. Existing research, however, has focused on the architecture and structure of such standards, and did not investigate their actual content. In this paper, we present a framework of metrics for the quality and maturity of categorization standards, and apply these metrics to eCl@ss, UNSPSC, eOTD, and RNTD. The results clearly show weaknesses which hamper the use in many application domains. Also, we can reveal that only some of these standards are actually maintained and updated, while others are rather inactive, dead collections
Keywords :
business data processing; content management; dictionaries; electronic commerce; standards; vocabulary; RNTD; Rosettanet Technical Dictionary; UNSPSC; categorization standard; content integration task; content management; data management; e-business scenario; eOTD; machine-readable semantic representation; product-related data exchange; quantitative analysis; Content management; Data analysis; Dictionaries; Enterprise resource planning; Natural languages; Standards development; Standards organizations; Tagging; Terminology; Vocabulary;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
e-Business Engineering, 2005. ICEBE 2005. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2430-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICEBE.2005.15
Filename :
1552949
Link To Document :
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