Context Types Table

CONTEXT TYPES TABLE

Name Definition Include? BPMM Equivalent Notes Sources of resources Issues Industry The industry or sub-industry in Yes No Add to UN/Cefact etc. How to handle cross-industry? which the information exchange BPMM Can you have multiple values in a single takes place context category? Is domain and industry the same? Business The business process enabled by Yes Version 2 is Business Get latest UN Industry Classes? How to handle cross-enterprise? Can you Process the information exchange Process Category at version of Thomas Register? have ;multiple values in a single context high-level or Udef from Udef? category? Low-level business Tom Warner process definition. Rosetta Net the output This will become a of the BPAWG single, recursive (UN/Cefact process abstract Business group) Collaboration Component Ask BP for other sources.

Commonly used patterns from BP(Robert Haugen) Product The goods or services that the Yes Economic Resource UN/SPCP Do we make this kind of classification exchange of information Type General definable by those people using the describes or enables Classifications from information by specifying (recommended the UN and host of standard classifications available for general classifications general use also). The kind of product from Domains. Ask influences the kind of product for input from C1 information??! Physical The physical geography and Yes No Add to GPS, Aerospace, ISO How to capture range of conditions Geography conditions (weather, altitude, BPMM /Conditions climate) geographical context of /Region the information exchange (not geo-political) Temporal The time-based context of the Yes No Add to GMT Adopt as a What about products/services exchange? information exchange – as it BPMM primitive model of a Just-In-Time philosophy and how to relates to product also? It is Global Time. handle temporal contexts. possible for a temporal context to be a for a shipment of banana and effectivity of information itself. Geo- Political Rules (usually defined Yes No Add to ATA, DOD, FAA, How to handle cross-political/regulatory Political by Geography) and Regulatory BPMM AECMA, UN/Cefact. issues?(Scope?) Cannot make assumptions /Regulatory Organizations which are used. ISO about a particular hierarchy. Can you have multiple values in a single context category? Is this also Legislative Application The application and/or system Yes Business Service Discuss other Look in the mirror Drivers such as information processing Processing context of the information Interface (hiding) options UN economic activity issues. Ugly, but necessary. Vendor and exchange and/or OAG industry sub-standards issues – vendor or There is some agreed-upon level standards reports? It could be used by its of support. particular application vendor or standards and some generic. Business A business purpose context Maybe – do ?? Process category??? Discuss Sun domain list… Are these two different things; i.e. the Purpose unrelated to the business this later? cooperatively Karsten (business dynamic change of purpose (whether it is /domain process? between at a function) content or metadata). later date. Reuse and repurposing of information issues. Partner Role One end of a business process. Yes Yes Partner Role Is it subsumed in business process Buyer/Seller, -- Partner Role [From BP Metamodel] Particular role that a party plays in a process. BP will give definition Service Level Service level attached to Maybe No Maybe?? OTA, Credit agencies Need set of general categories. (profiles – not agreements of either the provider In agreement preferences.) or receiver of products. with BP and may have to explore business purposes. Virtual [From BPO Metamodel] The Probably not Market/sub- This seems to be the same as application marketplace marketplace identifies a set of market processing – look at ECO and ECO applications systems in which metamodel. Or perhaps it is the same as in they do business on the web or a specific community? across extrranets. Info. Structural [The "element" context of Further Business document CONTENT MODEL Is this necessary as an explicitly piece of Context information in an XML sense] exploration and information entity OF ANY??!!! context. May be derived as an XML When we get into a situation needed message itself. where we are talking about varying information structures but based upon the business information (element context in a business process) Should I reference; should I include. Identification of the place or purpose where a core component is reused as an element in a specific sequence in another core component element

There is a way to use Transport/Logistics General Issues context in a Is Market Role a context? combinatorial way. Hierarchical use and multiple use.