The objective of the EUREKA SUM project is to develop new ecommerce software and business practices to enable manufacturers to sell make-to-order products to the end customer without the need of a retailer. A research activity has been carried out in the first project stage to investigate the efforts that are active or have been done in the field of e-commerce content standardization with a focus on the application in the textile/clothing sector. This research has revealed the existence of a number of initiatives and projects at the European and international levels to standardize the exchange of data in the textile/clothing sector and we believe that they are of interest to a larger audience than the project consortium. The paper briefly summarizes these results and draws some conclusions regarding their implications on the further development of SUM software.
[1]
Steffen Staab,et al.
Web Services: Been There, Done That?
,
2003,
IEEE Intell. Syst..
[2]
Nicola Guarino,et al.
Call for Participants: The E-Commerce Product Classification Challenge
,
2001
.
[3]
Nicola Guarino,et al.
State of the Art in Content Standards
,
2001
.
[4]
Nicola Guarino,et al.
Towards Ontology-Based Harmonization of Web Content Standards
,
2000,
ER.
[5]
Dieter Fensel,et al.
Product Data Integration in B2B E-Commerce
,
2001,
IEEE Intell. Syst..
[6]
Dieter Fensel,et al.
Ontologies: A silver bullet for knowledge management and electronic commerce
,
2002
.