Agenda

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PIDX Petroleum Industry Data Exchange
A General Introduction to PIDX Europe liaison
with CEN / ISSS
Presented by Dave Wallis Exec. Committee Member
PIDX Europe
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Agenda

• 1 - What is Europe
• 2 - Who are CEN / ISSS
• 3 - What are the goals of CEN/ISSS
• 4 - What groups within CEN/ISSS am I watching
  for PIDX
• 5 - Direct PIDX Europe activity at CEN / ISSS
• 6 - Other European eCommerce standardisation
  activities
• 7 - Close

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The European Union. 490 Million people the
worlds largest trading block. 20 official
languages, but 72 of the population speak either
- German French English Italian, and
the language of all eBusiness committees is
English !
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CEN - the European Committee for
Standardization, was founded in 1961 by the
national standards bodies in the European
Economic Community and EFTA countries.
CEN/ISSS - Information Society Standardization
System provides market players with a
comprehensive and integrated range of
standardization services and products, in order
to contribute to the success of the Information
Society in Europe.
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........ Priorities for 2002 - 2006
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..works like this Openness and
transparency all interested stakeholders may
take part in the work representation is secured
primarily through the national standards bodies
which send balanced delegations to the
policy-making bodies and technical
committees. Depending on specific terms of
reference, the committees are also open to
Associate Members, Counsellors, European trade
federations and international organizations Cons
ensus standards are developed on the basis of
voluntary agreement between all
parties National commitment and technical
coherence formal adoption of European Standards
is decided by a weighted majority vote of the CEN
National Members and is binding on all of them.
They must implement the standards at national
level and withdraw conflicting standards Integra
tion with other international work
standardization is expensive and time-consuming.
Wherever possible CEN works with other European
bodies and international bodies. The standards
programme is coordinated by the Technical Board
of CEN. Most standards are drawn up in technical
committees and their working groups. CEN Workshop
Agreements are drawn up in Workshops.
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some metrics

• At the end of 2004 they had 15 eCommerce related
  Workshop groups active, and 3 new ones proposed
• 12 completed CEN Workshop Agreements ( CWA
  the final technical document produced by a
  Workshop ), were published in the final quarter
  of 2004, an average they hope to maintain
• All CWA are freely downloadable from their very
  comprehensive CEN/ISSS website
• In the last 90 days of 2004 over 14,000 copies
  of their various CWA were downloaded
• They have had, or continue to have some level of
  communication with over 165 consortia and trade /
  industry standards associations

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...some of the more relevant groups

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...some of the more relevant groups

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CEN / ISSS eBES EEG1 Trade eOrder Project
The current eOrder class diagram with attributes
( WIP ). All completed CEN / ISSS projects
are always submitted to UN/CEFACT for eventual
global consideration / harmonisation / acceptance
/ adoption. UN / CEFACT ( TBG17 ) have already
accepted this CEN / ISSS project as one of theirs.

• The final results of this project group ( as
  are all others ) will be -
• Business Process activity diagram
• Business Requirements Specification w/ Use Case
  diagram
• Requirements Specification Mapping w/ class
  diagram using UN / CEFACT Core Components and
  Business Information Entities ( BIE ), plus those
  requiring harmonisation at UN / CEFACT level.

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Other direct PIDX Europe activity within
CEN/ISSS
WS/eINV (electronic invoicing) after the Focus
Group reported on the strategies to broaden the
implementation across Europe in line with EU
directives on VAT, the detailed technical
developments have commenced. They have completed
the drafting of its work programme under the
relevant mandate and has been submitted to the
Commission. At a meeting on 9 February, the
real work started, with the Workshop appointing
a Project Team of experts to take forward the
various work items related to many of the
routine components, and also to range from EDI
and up to electronic signatures. A colleague on
the PIDX Europe Executive Committee,
co-chair Alan Perro of Schlumberger has
volunteered to join this group as a participant
to put forward the OIL GAS industry point of
view for PIDX.
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Other signs of European eCommerce standardisation

• eCl_at_ss - a European based standards body in the
  engineering, automotive and other sectors has
  agreed to work towards complete harmonisation
  with ETIM, a European wholesale electronics
  supplier group.
• eCl_at_ss have signed a MoU with the DIN group,
  the German based standards to move towards a long
  term harmonisation of the classifications, and
  that they will also follow the ISO 13584/IEC
  standard.
• There is an ISO / IEC / ITU-T / UN-ECE MoU on
  eCommerce standardisation. A recent meeting of
  the MoU Management Group in Boston discussed the
  respective roles of UN/CEFACT and OASIS
  concerning ebXML-related issues.

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Other signs of European eCommerce standardisation
Now re-named GS1
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Other signs of European eCommerce standardisation
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Other signs of European eCommerce standardisation
ATHENA Advanced Technologies for
interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise
Networks and their Applications - is an
Integrated Project sponsored by the European
Commission in support of the Strategic Objective
Networked businesses and government ATHENA is
committed to creating a long term impact for
advancing interoperability which is mainstream,
inclusive and has critical mass.  To this end,
ATHENA is initiating an open, neutral and
independent Enterprise Interoperability Centre
(EIC) to which all stakeholders, in both private
and public sectors, are invited to participate.
My first impressions after 1 meeting, is that
this would probably be an initially EU-funded hub
which would probably help promote CEN/ISSS
business messaging standards to encourage
European small to medium sized enterprises launch
eCommerce initiatives. Long term the EU hope the
EIC would be self funding from the active
stakeholders.
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An example of the interaction and cooperation
between various different groups working in the
classification arena both within European and
global groups.
EU Comm
Funding
Liaison / Cooperation
CEN / WS / eBES / EEG-1
ISO
Business Messaging Projects
e-Cat Workshop Multi-lingual
C-Catalogue
eOrder
Remitt.
eCAT CWA 15045
ePDC 1 draft CWA
eInvoice
ePDC 2 commencing
TC 184 Data models
OIDDI Properties
TC 37 Terminology
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A good source of survey data of European
eCommerce activity
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Some of the other groups around Europe that I
have been, or will continue to monitor on behalf
of PIDX and OFS Portal are -

• USPNL An association of companies
  operating in and supplying to the European ( read
  Dutch ) Process and Power Industry with the
  objective to promote and support the development
  and implementation of those international
  standards for the interchange, sharing, and
  management of data and documents, that fulfil the
  life-cycle plant data and related document
  management requirements.
• OIDDI An informal organisation, so far,
  which feels that building domain dictionaries is
  a huge technical task that cannot be considered
  profitable, and that may only result from a
  world-wide co-operation of numerous organizations
  that agree to make their work results fully
  interoperable. One meeting so far, and may end
  up falling under the auspices of one of the
  Technical work groups within ISO SC4, or CEN /
  ISSS.
• CIDX Our sister organisation for the
  chemicals industry with a strong set of
  transaction documents, and a healthy and active
  global membership. We have a JPT with them and
  with RAPID the agri-chemical association
• ECCMA Open technical dictionary
  builder, 60k names and 30k attributes so far,
  strongly supported by US NATO military
  logistics groups. I was accepted to be a domain
  expert for the Oil Gas Industry, and chaired
  one of their workshops ( Inventory
  Rationalisation ) at their annual International
  Cataloguing conference in Battle Creek, Michigan,
  Oct 2004.

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Where to find out more

• Review documents loaded onto the PIDX website
• Contact me and Ill try and help you,
• For OFS Portal members only, review the
  information which I load into the OFS Portal
  PIDX Europe eRoom (my meeting reports and
  hopefully other useful / relevant documentation )
  
• Review the key CEN group and other websites
• http//comelec.afnor.fr/cen/wsei eInvoicing
  workshop group
• http//www.nen.nl/wseprocurement/
  eProcurement work group
• http//linux.termnet.org/index.py?levellevel3id
  2lang_en eCAT group
• http//linux.termnet.org/index.py?levellevel3id
  2lang_en ePDC group
• http//www.cenorm.be/CENORM/BusinessDomains/busine
  ssdomains/isss/activity/ebif.asp eBIF group
• http//www.cenorm.be/cenorm/businessdomains/busine
  ssdomains/isss/activity/wsebes.asp eBES group
• www.OIDDI.org OIDDI website, only launched
  November 2004
• http//www.athena-ip.org/index.php?optioncontent
  taskviewid44Itemid89 Athena group
• www.cidx.org CIDX organisation
• http//www.eccma.org/new/ ECCMA
• http//www.uspi.nl/ USPNL

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• I hope this work I have done so far has been of
  use to PIDX and its membership.
• Comments and suggestions for future focus, and
  for the information I am currently supplying and
  / or other groups I should try and monitor, are
  welcomed,
• Thanks for your support,
• Dave

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Questions?