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| RSCML - Really Simple Catalogue Markup Language | ||
| Why is it needed? Last updated by Anon on Tuesday, 08/14/2001 - 13:04 | ||
Catalogue build and maintenance has become almost the number one problem that is holding back e-Commerce. Suppliers are expected to package their data and pass it to their big customers. Each customer wants the data in a different format. Each industry is creating different formats. The Buyers have taken on the task of building and maintaining the data despite the fact that they are not the creators of the data. So now the buyers have a task they shouldn't want and the suppliers can't cope with the demands or get updates accepted when they change their product lines. Several e-procurement vendors have attempted to deal with this by "Punch Out" or "Round Trip" approaches. This is an attempt to formalise this. The various attempts such as UDDI, to index businesses are shying away from indexing products because the domain space is too big to cope with. | ||
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