Records Mgmt & Archiving

UN/CEFACT - Common Business Process Catalog, Technical Specification
Version 1.0
30th September 2005

Summary:
The Common Business Processes Catalog technical specification document provides the methodology to identify, discover, and maximize the reuse of commonly used business processes. To develop this methodology, the specification document describes the structure, syntax, and semantics for industry standard expression of metadata to describe common business processes to be recorded in the catalog. This will facilitate reuse of these business processes in a variety of e-business applications and records mgmt systems (e.g. for retention schedules)

see:
http://www.disa.org/cefact-groups/tbg/wg/tbg14_main.cfm

download the specification of the Common business Process Catalog:
http://www.disa.org/cefact-groups/tbg/Docs/tbg14/cbpc-technical-specification-v1_0-300905.doc

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by Russell D. James