Foreword
0 Introduction
0.1 Purpose and Overview
0.2 Definition of Open-edi Business Transaction
Ontology (OeBTO)
0.3 Use of the 'Independent' and 'Trading Partner'
Perspective in the Open-edi Ontology Work
0.4 The 'Open-edi Business Transaction Ontology' (OeBTO)
0.5 Organization and description of this part of ISO/IEC
15944
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Abbreviated terms
5 The Declarative Component of an OeBTO - Primitive and
Derived Data Classes
5.1 Person and Economic Resources
5.2 The Normative Data Categories for a Business
Transaction Involving an Economic Exchange: Resources,
Events, and Persons Plus Their Fundamental
Relationships
5.2.1 Entity Definitions
5.2.2 Relationship Definitions
5.3 Addition of Business Event to Basic Exchange Pattern
5.4 Extension of the OeBTO into Types
5.5 Locations and Claims
5.6 Adding Commitments to Economic Exchanges
5.7 Business Transactions with Contracts
5.8 Typifying Agreements and Business Transactions
6 The Procedural Component of an OeBTO - Business
Transaction State Machines
6.1 Relating Ontological Components to the Open-edi
Business Transaction Phases
7 The Constraint Component of an OeBTO - Incorporating
Business Rules into Business Transactions
7.1 Business Rules and Open-edi Constraints
7.2 OeBTO Constraint Examples
7.3 Summary
Annex A (normative) Consolidated List of Terms and
Definitions with Cultural Adaptability: ISO English
and ISO French Language Equivalency
A.1 Introduction
A.2 ISO English and ISO French
A.3 Cultural adaptability and quality control
A.4 List of Terms in French Alphabetical Order
A.5 Organization of Annex A, 'Consolidated matrix of terms
and definitions'
A.6 Consolidated Matrix of ISO/IEC 15944-4 Terms and
Definitions in English and French
Annex B (informative) REA Model Background
B.1 REA (Resource-Event-Agent) Ontology Introduction
B.2 The Basic REA Ontology
B.3 Adding Commitments to the Basic Exchange Ontology
B.4 Adding Types to the Basic REA Exchange Ontology
B.5 The Suitability of the REA Ontology within the Open-edi
Model
Annex C (normative) Business Transaction Model (BTM): two
classes of constraints
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