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Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing

Dave Berry of the UK National e-Science Centre (NeSC) writes, "At HC2008 I was introduced to the XDS standard for Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (not to be confused with several other uses of the XDS acronym). XDS is a profile of the ebXML standards for registries and other related standards to specify a system for sharing medical documents. The important point is that XDS is supported by several major vendors and has been deployed in clinical health systems in several countries. As far as I'm aware, it has not made any impact in the grid world.

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Netbay cuts Customs process time

Netbay has expanded its business to provide e-payment gateway support to freight forwarders. The company uses Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML) to connect back-office operations of five government agencies to e-Customs as part of the National Single Windows initiative.

Pichit Viwatrujirapong, managing director of Netbay, an e-logistics gateway provider, said the company will focus on providing e-payment services to freight forwarders, shipping agents, traders and other import- and export-related related businesses.

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Drummond Group Announces Formation of AS4 at OASIS which offers AS2 Simplicity for Web Services

Drummond Group Announces Formation of AS4 at OASIS which offers AS2 Simplicity for Web Services
Subcommittee to Profile ebMS 3.0

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OGC Adopts ebRIM Application Profile for Catalogues

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) membership has approved the OASIS ebRIM (electronic business Registry Information Model) application profile of the OpenGIS® Catalogue Service 2.1.2 standard. The Catalogue Standard specifies a design pattern that allows for the definition of interfaces called application profiles based on different standards, such as ZF39.50, ebRIM, UDDI, or ISO metadata, that support the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) about geospatial data, services and related information objects.

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Call for Use Cases - CCTS Context Methodology

Mark Crawford writes, "The UN/CEFACT Context Methodology Project Team is hard at work developing the much needed CCTS Context Methodology. We have completed UN/CEFACT Open Development Process (ODP) Steps 1 and 2 (Requirements are available on our collaboration site. The project is currently in ODP Step 3 - Internal Draft Development. As part of that process, we are evaluating use cases to help us ensure we are meeting our agreed upon requirements as well as the needs of our intended user community (the broad spectrum of CCTS users).

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