1. Danish UBL issues and possible contributions By Mikkel Hippe Brun The National IT and Telecom Agency, The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation mhb@itst.dk and bni@itst.dk UBL TC meeting, San Francisco, November 5th 2003

2. Agenda Adopting UBL Status in Danish eCommerce TC Implementation of UBL between State Ministries and eProcurement portal Adopting NDR Problems with NDR in eGovernment usage Getting NDR on the agenda Global Cross border vocabularies Sector specific vocabularies Regional National Publicity and promotion of UBL

3. Danish eCommerce TC June 2002First meeting Dec 2002 Choice of UBL June 2003Decision to implement UBL between ministries and eProcurement portal by the Agency of Governmental Management Nov 2003Public hearing on 0p7-derived subset Evaluation of 1.0 and implementation in Agency of Governmental Management Jan 2004Official adoption of UBL (0p7-derived subset)

4. Barriers and Questions Adoption by private sector is critical Private sector will probably be influenced by public sector initiatives Critical lobby work lies ahead When should we do our marketing? Now: 0p7-derived subset? Later: 1.0 adoption?

5. Op7-based implementation in DK at the Agency for Governmental Management Ministry Agency Message broker Ministry Agency Ministry Agency Ministry Agency Gateway Op7 based exchange eProcurement portal OAG

6. Step 2: UBL 1.0 interface to eProcurement portal Ministry Agency Message broker Ministry Agency Ministry Agency Ministry Agency Gateway Op7 based exchange eProcurement portal UBL 1.0

7. Step 3: Upgrade from Op7 to 1.0 and private sector integration Ministry Agency Message broker Ministry Agency Ministry Agency Ministry Agency eProcurement portal UBL 1.0 Company

8. The problem with full adoption of NDR: Weak data types vs. strong data types DKCC UKCC USCC NOCC ebXML Core Components CC XSLT

9. Getting NDR on the agenda ? DK national NDR SC UK national NDR SC US national NDR SC FR national NDR SC NDR for governmental message development NDR for national message development (optional) eGov TC UBL NDR SC NDR for UBL message development eGov NDR SC

10. Getting NDR on the eGov agenda Is this the right approach? Is eGov the right forum?

11. UBL Review, publicity and promotion Review Assistance in coordinating eGov review? Publicity and promotion How can we be of assistance? Case description of Danish implementation? Promoting UBL at EU/IDAbc Workshop? Can you help us? Interview with danish press?