CEN (WS/eCAT)
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CEN Workshop on 'Multilingual eCataloguing and eClassification in eBusiness' (WS/eCAT) (since 2002)
Products and services are sold in the language of the target market. eCommerce and eBusiness can only function well if the virtual marketplaces and all their major elements (product classification schemes, user interfaces, product catalogues, etc.) are multilingual from the outset.
Initiated by Infoterm and TermNet, CEN/WS/eCAT was set up by the European Standards Commission (CEN) with the support of the European Commission. From 2002-2006, CEN/WS/eCAT produced six CEN Workshop Agreements dealing with various aspects of eBusiness Cataloguing and Classification.
In 2008, CEN/WS/eCAT was under the
chairmanship of the Director of Infoterm, Dr. Christian Galinski, in order to carry out the projects:
- CEN WS/eCAT-ePPS on “Electronic Product Property Server in support of product description and classification in eBusiness” (2008-2009). The ePPS project delivered a CWA (16100:2010) on “Guidelines for the design, implementation and operation of an electronic product property server”.
- CEN WS/eCAT-CC3P on “Classification and Catalogue systems for Public and PrivateProcurement” (2008-2010). The project delivered a CWA (16138:2010) containing an analysis of the main classification systems used in Europe for public procurement and some used in the private sector.
- CEN/WS/eCAT-CMap on "Classification Mapping for open and standardized product classification usage in eBusiness” (2011-2012). The project foresees the development of a methodology to define the
processes, procedures, organization and tools to enable an easy
maintenance of the mappings between four major fully horizontal product
classification schemes.
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Last update: 2011-08-10
