UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND ELECTRONIC BUSINESSUnder the auspices of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UN/CEFACTINFORMATION CONTENT MANAGEMENT GROUP

ICG

MIKE CONROY, CHAIR

UN/CEFACT

Group’s Mandate (Summary)

The purpose of the Information Content Management Group (ICG) is to ensure the release of quality technical specifications for e-business. To achieve this aim it will be responsible for the:o Management of the UN/CEFACT information repositories and libraries

for electronic business and Recommendations that fall within its scope as listed in section 2 of the mandate;

o Technical conformance and the registration of the UN/CEFACT business requirements specifications;

o Normalization and maintenance of the base syntax neutral information components that serve as the building blocks for the development of standards for implementation;

o Technical conformity and registration of syntax specific information objects and components.

Work Programme

Project Definition StatusProjected

Completion date

ICG Project team leader

2 FCT Operating Procedures between TBG, ATG and ICG

COMPLETED

3 BRS (Business Requirements Specification) Development

DRAFT FOR REVIEW

2005-03 M. CONROY

4 RSM (Requirement Specification Mapping)

DRAFT FOR REVIEW

2005-09 M. CONROY

5 UML profile for UMM INITIAL DRAFT SUBMITTED

2004-09 M. CONROY

6 Develop UN/CEFACT repository strategy

INITIALISED 2004-09 F. BERTHOMIEU

(temporary)

7 Maintain UN/ECE Recommendations

ONGOING ONGOING D. DOBBING

8 UNCL migration strategy NOT STARTED

D. DOBBING

9 UN/EDIFACT Directory Audit ONGOING ONGOING M. CONROY

UN/CEFACT

New Projects

UMM PROFILE FOR UMLo OBJECTIVE

DEFINE UML PROFILE FOR CLASS DIAGRAMS PERMIT COMMON USE OF UML ARTIFACTS ENHANCE INTEROPERABILITY ENABLE AUTOMATIC XML GENERATION

DEFINE UML PROFILE FOR CORE COMPONENTS PERMIT INTERGRATION AND USE IN UML

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS PROVIDE AUTOMATED PLATFORM FOR LIBRARY

COMPONENT USE ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF REUSABLE

MODELS

REQUIRED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UN REPOSITORY STRATEGY

UN/CEFACT

Items for Plenary Noting

Recommendation 16: UN/LOCODE 2003-2 and UN/LOCODE 2004-1

Recommendation 23: Freight cost codes – FCC

UN/EDIFACT D.03A UN/EDIFACT D.03B TBG/ATG/ICG workflow process

UN/CEFACT

Issues for Plenary action

Difficulty in securing participation to the groupo New groupo Functions not yet visibleo New deliverables that require development

Request Heads of Delegation to encourage participation

UN/CEFACT

UN/CEFACTSIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES

FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS.