EU E-invoicing Forum asks you: provide useful definition of terms

Next to the other Working Groups of the European e-Invoice Multi Stakeholder Forum, the Working Group for Task 4  (standardisation and interoperability) is giving follow-up to the assignment it has been given.

One of the activities that came into the spotlight during the last meeting of the European e-Invoice Multistakeholder Forum in Brussels was dealing with the terminology and definitions that are being used in the context of electronic invoicing. It was agreed that an un-ambiguous use of terminology and definitions would no doubt foster the adoption and progress of the deliverables.

Useful definition of e-invoicing terms

In order to obtain a useful ‘definition of terms’ the Working Group recently agreed to consult the members of the European e-Invoice Multistakeholder Forum, and via them their constituencies. And you are part of that constituency….

Please find below a list of Terms for which a definition should be given. Note that:

• This is not an exhaustive list - please add Term(s) if you think that they are relevant and missing from the list
• The sequence is random; it does not imply relevance or priority

On behalf of the EU E-invoicing Forum we would like to ask you to provide information on the Terms listed, as:

1. recognition of the Term concerned,
2. definition for the Term in use by your constituency,
3. dependency or relation between a Term and other Term(s),
4. additional information on the Term that is considered relevant.

E-invoicing definitions

The Task4 working Group has sofar come up with this non-exhaustive list:

1. Semantic model
2. Syntax
3. Data set
4. Content standard
5. Format standard
6. Business Requirement
7. Business Requirement Specification
8. Context
9. Scope
10. Information Requirement
11. Information Requirement Model
12. Process Choreography
13. Data Model
14. Metadata
15. Cardinality
16. Attribute
17. Property
18. Association
19. Business Term
20. Business Rule
21. Constraint
22. Requirement Specification Mapping
23. Core Component
24. Data Type
25. Business Information Entity
26. Business Object
27. Business Message
28. Library
29. Repository
30. Syntax Implementation
31. Syntax Mapping
32. Standard
33. XML Schema
34. Implementation Guideline
35. Bill
36. Invoice

A much larger list of definitions can be found in the CEN/ISSS E-invoicing 2 CWA 16049 - Assessing new business processes and technologies for eInvoicing.

Please send your feedback - preferably before 20^th April 2012 to Edmund Gray ([email protected]) and Peter Potgieser ([email protected])