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| Fora summaryThis page contains a summary of organizations or initiatives, dealing with standardisation aspects in general or especially in the field of tourism. For each organisation is given a short description of its objective and methodology, its participants, contact details and a link to further information. Overview
Description BizTalk is an industry initiative defining the BizTalk Framework, an Extensible Markup Language (XML) framework for application integration and electronic commerce. It includes a design framework for implementing an XML schema and a set of XML tags used in messages sent between applications. The BizTalk Framework will be used to produce and publish XML schemas in a consistent manner.
Participants Microsoft Corp supported by a wide range of organizations, from technology vendors like SAP and CommerceOne to technology users like Boing and BP/Amoco
Contact Dan Rogers
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CEN/ISSS (European Committee for Standardization / Information Society Standardization System)
Description ISSS was created by CEN to include all the relevant European Information Society standardization activities under a single umbrella. It provides a "one-stop shop" for those with standardization requirements within CEN's ICT field, and a range of products and services to meet identified requirements. CEN/ISSS aims to fill the gap between formal and informal standardization, in particular through the fast and less complex specification writing in the form of consensus-based CEN Workshop Agreements. Interesting workshops are Directories and Naming issues (DIR), Electronic Commerce (EC) and European Board for EDIFACT Standards (EBES).
Participants National standards bodies of the EU and EFTA countries and the Czech Republic
Contact CEN/ISSS Secretariat Rue de Stassart 36 B-1050 Brussels Belgium Phone: +32 2 550 08 13 Fax: +32 2 550 09 66
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DISA (Data Interchange Standards Association)
Description DISA’s objective is promoting e-commerce in a global marketplace. DISA hosts standards setting and networking forums (ASC X12, UN/EDIFACT, OTA,…).
Participants 800+ member organizations, representing a wide spectrum of industries, including Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofit organizations and entrepreneurial enterprises
Contact Data Interchange Standards Association, Inc. 333 John Carlyle Street Suite 600 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone: (703) 548-7005 Fax: (703) 548-5738 Tim Cochran John Hathaway
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Description The mission of ebXML is to provide an open XML-based infrastructure enabling the global use of electronic business information in an interoperable, secure and consistent manner by all parties. ebXML,
sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS, is a modular suite of specifications that
enables enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct
business over the Internet. Using ebXML, companies now have a standard method to
exchange business messages, conduct trading relationships, communicate data in
common terms and define and register business processes. Participants UN/CEFACT, OASIS, supported by eBES, e centreUK, Korea Institute for Electronic Commerce, Open Applications Group, Open Travel Alliance, RosettaNet, Tradegate ECA
Contact Klaus-Dieter Naujok
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Description The goal of the eCo Framework project is to develop a common framework for interoperability among XML-based application standards and key electronic commerce environments. The project's working group will develop a specification for content names and definitions in electronic commerce documents, and an interoperable transaction framework specification.
Participants CommerceNet Inc., Members from 35 companies
Contact Eco-comments@lists.commerce.net Murray Maloney Leslie Lundquist Rik Drummond
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ETC (European Travel Commission)
Description ETC is the organisation responsible for the worldwide promotion overseas of Europe as a tourist destination. The basic activities of the ETC are public relations, consumer advertising, trade promotion and standards.
Participants National Tourist Organisations (NTOs) of all the European Union countries as well as almost all the other European countries, handling national tourism promotion
Contact ETC Executive Unit 61 rue du Marche aux Herbes 1000 – Bruxelles Phone : +32.2-504 03 03 Fax : +23.2-514 18 43 Peter Varlow
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HEDNA (Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association)
Description HEDNA is an international, not-for-profit organization formed in 1991. The mission of HEDNA is to increase hotel industry revenues and profitability from electronic distribution channels and to be the foremost travel industry association advancing hotel electronic distribution. HEDNA especially elaborates hotel distribution standards done by a standards committee.
Participants Lodging hospitality companies, distribution companies, service providers as well as travel agencies, tour operators, and education institutions from all over the world
Contact HEDNA
Administrative Offices Fax: 703-548-5738 Audrey Sieh
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HITIS (Hospitality Industry Technology Integration Standards)
Description The goal of HITIS is to identify general functions (of property management systems) and standardize their implementation. In addition, a common data dictionary for hospitality relevant data is to be developed. HITIS provides an object standard and therefore specifies standardized interfaces for objects providing the identified functions. The object standard is additionally provided as XML specifications.
Participants American Hotel & Motel Association (AH&MA)
Contact American Hotel & Motel Association 1201 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20005-3931 Phone: (202) 289-3100 Fax: (202) 289-3199
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IATA (International Air Transport Association)
Description The mission of IATA is to represent and to serve the airline industry. One of its goals is to develop cost-effective, environmentally-friendly standards and procedures to facilitate the operation of international air transport. An Electronic Commerce Distribution Group (ECDG) will develop sound air transport industry electronic commerce business practices. Message standardisation efforts: · Data Interchange Standards Handbook · Passenger and Airport Data Interchange Standards (PADIS) IATA is currently starting an XML task force, aiming to develop airline internet data interchange standards based on XML architecture.
Participants Over 250 airlines from all continents
Contact IATA Centre Route de l' Aeroport 33 P O Box 416 15 - Airport CH-1215 Geneva Switzerland Phone: +41 22 799 2525 Fax: +41 22 798 3553
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ICTSB (Information and Communication Technology Standards Board)
Description The ICT Standards Board listens to requirements for standards and specifications that are based on concrete market needs and expressed by any competent source. The Board then considers what standards or specifications need to be created, and how the task will be carried out. The ICTSB work is to examine ICT standardization requirements, to translate these requirements into coherent, approved projects, and to allocate the projects to the appropriate production mechanisms.
Participants European standards bodies CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, with the participation of specification providers as full partners
Contact ICTSB Secretariat c/o ETSI Secretariat 650 Route des Lucioles F-06921 Sophia Antipolis CEDEX France Phone: +33 4 92 94 42 47/43 68 Fax: +33 4 93 65 47 16
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OAG (Open Applications Group)
Description The Open Applications Group is a non-profit industry consortium focussing on promoting the easy and cost-effective integration of key business application software components for enterprise and supply chain functions for end-user organizations. The Open Applications Group Integration Specifications (OAGIS) accelerate component integration and electronic commerce by providing capabilities for Supply Chain Integration using the Extensible Markup Language (XML). The Open Applications Group has also published a proposal for a common middleware (OAMAS) that, when adopted with OAGIS, will move the industry much closer to the vision of plug and play compatibility for business applications.
Participants 40 members comprised of application vendors, technology vendors, systems integrators, and customers
Contact Open Applications Group, Inc. 2404 Shiloh Drive Marietta, GA 30064 U.S.A. Phone: +1 770 426 0184 Fax: +1 770 426 0711
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OMG (Object Management Group)
Description The OMG was formed to create a component-based software marketplace by hastening the introduction of standardized object software. The organization's charter includes the establishment of industry guidelines and detailed object management specifications to provide a common framework for application development. Primary goals are the reusability, portability, and interoperability of object-based software in distributed, heterogeneous environments. Within specific task forces are developed specifications for special area markets or domains (domain interfaces) e.g. the Transportation or the Retail group.
Participants Over 800 members, including information system vendors, software developers and users
Contact Object Management Group 492 Old Conneticut Path Framingham, MA 01701 USA Phone: +1-508-820-4300 Fax: +1-508-820-4303 John Lewis Union Switch and Signal, Inc. Therese Smith FAA/MIT Lincoln Labs
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Description omnis-online is an electronic marketplace platform for the travel and tourism industry. The essential feature of omnis-online is the contractual and procedural framework which makes it possible for buyers and sellers of holiday and travel products, in different parts of the world, to trade together. omnis-online provides a standards book, which is a statement of procedures, rules and definitions to govern the use of omnis-online, especially including product description standards (based on XML).
Participants Omnis-online Tourismus Services GmbH , PAGO International , Lufthansa Systems Berlin
Contact omnis-online Tourismus Services GmbH & Co. KG Paul Byerley
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Description Ontology.Org is an independent industry and research forum focussed upon the application of ontologies in Internet commerce. It is the central goal of Ontology.Org to use ontologies to address the problems that impact the formation and sustainability of large electronic trading groups.
Participants 10 steering group members from academia and industry, 10 partner organisations and sponsors (incl. CommerceNet, CSC)
Contact Ontology.Org 279 Farnborough Road Farnborough Hampshire GU14 7LS United Kingdom Phone: +44 1252 363945 Howard Smith
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OTA (Open Travel Alliance)
Description The Open Travel Alliance aims to promote the free flow of travel services through multiple distribution channels. Therefore, the objective is to provide a vocabulary and grammar for communicating travel-related information as tags across all travel industry segments. These tags will be implemented using the eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
Participants Over 150 members comprised of organisations in all sectors of the travel industry, including air (United Airlines, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, KLM,…), car (Avis, Hertz, National,…), hotel (Swissotel, Hilton, Bass Hotels & Resorts,…), travel agencies (ASTA), technology providers (TTI) and other travel related suppliers
Contact OpenTravel Alliance 333 John Carlyle Street, Suite 600 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone: +1 703 548 7005 Fax: +1 703 548 5738 Tim Cochran
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Description RosettaNet is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting an industry-wide initiative to agree on and adopt common electronic business processes worldwide. RosettaNet focuses on building a master dictionary to define properties for products, partners, and business transactions. This master dictionary, coupled with an established implementation framework (exchange protocols), is used to support the eBusiness dialog known as the Partner Interface Process (PIP). RosettaNet PIPs create new areas of alignment within the overall IT supply-chain eBusiness processes, allowing IT supply-chain partners to scale eBusiness, and to fully leverage electronic commerce applications and the Internet as a business-to-business commerce tool.
Participants Managing Board consisting of twenty-eight individuals representing global members of the IT supply chain, including hardware manufacturers, software publishers, distributors, resellers, system integrators, end-users, technology providers, financial institutions and shippers
Contact RosettaNet 1801 Century Park East 7th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90067 U.S.A. Fadi Chehadé Arthur Greef
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TIN (Tourism Information Norm for the German tourism)
Description The TIN aims to provide rules for a uniform presentation and search structure within the information and reservation systems of the German tourism. Therefore, it defines and structures the characteristics for describing tourism services and specifies the access to the tourism services.
Participants Dr. Helmut Fried & Partner
Contact Dr. Helmut Fried & Partner, Marketing Beratung – München Deutscher Fremdenverkehrsverband e.V. (DFV)
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TTI (Travel Technology Initiative)
Description The Travel Technology Initiative was created to establish technology standards within the travel industry. TTI maintains and publishes the Unicorn EDI messages, of which there are now over 130 in use throughout the travel industry. The TTI is cooperating with the OTA on establishing XML standards.
Participants 92 members covering 10 countries across Europe
Contact Tony Allen Phone: +44 (0) 171 805 5470 (Switchboard 5000) Fax: +44 (0) 171 928 7561 Graham Harris
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TTRA (Travel and Tourism Research Association)
Description The Travel and Tourism Research Association is a professional organization comprised of providers and users of travel and tourism research, and serves as a primary resource to the travel and tourism industry. TTRA advocates standards and promotes the application of quality travel and tourism research and marketing information.
Participants International network of more than 800 travel and tourism research and marketing professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds
Contact Travel and Tourism Research Association PO Box 2133 Boise ID 83701 USA Phone: +1 208 429-9511 Fax: +1 208 429-9512
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UN/EDIFACT TT&L (United Nations rules for Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport – Travel Tourism & Leisure)
Description UN/EDIFACT aims at facilitating the electronic exchange of business data between communication partners and is comprised of a set of internationally agreed standards directories and guidelines for the electronic exchange of structured data. UN/EDIFACT mainly consists of the following rules: · syntax as unified grammar for data exchange · description and structuring of data elements · unification of messages as industry specific transactions The EDI data elements are collected in central dictionaries enabling the look up of their meaning and definition. The user group TT&L focuses on electronic data interchange within the field of tourism by defining a set of standard messages needed for trading tourism services (e.g. information, availability and reservation requests and responses).
Participants United Nations (UN) , United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE) , participants from member states, intergovernmental organizations, and sectoral and industry associations
Contact United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Palais des Nations Room 442 CH-1211 Geneva 10 Phone: +41 22 917 27 73 Fax: +41 22 917 00 37
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WATA (World Association of Travel Agencies)
Description Established in 1949, WATA is the most recognized worldwide network of leading incoming travel professionals who provides services to individual travellers, incentive and special interest groups in every major market round the globe. WATA provides important promotional support for the incoming products/services of its members and assures strong marketing visibility to support their sales efforts. Additionally, members have access to a substantial networking outlet with expertise. (see www.wata.net).
Participants 7 members of the Executive Committee, selected 60 members in 50 countries.
Contact World Association of Travel Agencies 11 RIANT COTEAU, 1196 - GLAND, Switzerland Christine FOURNIER, Executive Director
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xCBL (XML Common Business Library)
Description The XML Common Business Library (xCBL) is a set of XML building blocks and a document framework that allows the creation of robust, reusable, XML documents to facilitate global trading. It essentially serves as the "mother code," providing one language that all e-marketplace participants can understand. This interoperability allows businesses everywhere to easily exchange documents across multiple e-marketplaces, giving global access to buyers, suppliers, and providers of business services.
Participants Commerce One, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Compaq, SAP Markets
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XML/EDI (eXtensible Markup Language / Electronic Data Interchange)
Description XML/EDI is an extension of EDI and aims to enhance the EDI mechanisms by the flexibility and extensibility of XML. The basic approach of the XML/EDI framework is expressing EDI mechanisms using XML syntax. To reach full dynamic electronic commerce the XML/EDI framework provides three additional components: process templates containing processing information, software agents interpreting the process templates and repositories providing syntactic and semantic information needed for the execution of EDI transactions.
Participants XML/EDI group (ad hoc group of professionals and volunteers in various industries)
Contact David Webber
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