The www.udef.com (formerly www.udef.org) is the resource for Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF). It contains public information designed to educate interested parties and encourage subject matter experts to enlist to participate in the working groups building the UDEF trees, and implementing UDEF capability into applications, systems, and standards. The UDEF is focused on convergence and interoperability among standards, ontologies, taxonomies, and dictionaries that participate in Web Services and e-business. Please note also that the UDEF supports ebXML representation words.
www.udef.com XML specific vocabularies
More information: www.udef.com website (new window).
More on the general topic: Cross-industry consortia
- Business Process Modeling Initiative (BPMI.org)
- Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Interest Group
- Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
- electronic business using eXtensible Markup Language (ebXML)
- Information Technology Research and Standardization Center (INSTAC)
- Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- Java Community Process (JCP)
- Liberty Alliance Project
- Object Management Group (OMG)
- Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGi)
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- The Open Group
- Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
- RosettaNet
- Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I)
- Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- XBRL International
- XML/EDI Group
