eOTD is the acronym for the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary. The dictionary is a language-independent database of concepts with associated terms, definitions and images used to unambiguously describe individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules, and regulations. The eOTD is maintained by the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association

Electronic Commerce Code Management Association

The Electronic Commerce Code Management Association is an international not for profit membership association founded in 1999 with mission to research, develop and promote better quality data for use in electronic commerce....

 (ECCMA).

History

The eOTD was developed with the support of the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) an agency of the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). The eOTD is the first dictionary to be compliant with ISO 22745 (open technical dictionaries).

Structure

The eOTD contains terms, definitions and images linked to concept identifiers. eOTD concept identifiers are used to create unambiguous language independent descriptions of individuals, organizations, locations, goods, services, processes, rules and regulations. The process of using concept identifiers from an external open technical dictionary is a form of semantic encoding compliant with the requirements of ISO 8000

ISO 8000

ISO 8000, Data quality, is an ISO standard under development. It will be published as a number of separate documents, which ISO calls "parts"....

-110:2008, the international standard for the exchange of quality master data.

The eOTD concept identifiers are in the public domain. Using public domain identifiers as metadata creates portable data, data that can be legally separated from the software application that was used to create it. The dictionary contains concepts from international, national and industry standards including over 400,000 concepts of class (approved item name), property (attribute), units of measure, currency and common enumerated value (days of the week for example). The eOTD does not include a class hierarchy or class-property relationships.

Use

Companies use the eOTD to create data requirement specifications as Identification Guides( IG) or cataloging templates. These Identification Guides contain the class-property relationships and are used for cataloging, to measure data quality as well as to create requests for data or requests for data validation.

Industrial products and services categorization standards

• eCl@ss
  Eclass
  eCl@ss is a product classification and description standard for information exchange between customers and their suppliers.eCl@ss is a de facto standard within the German energy industry, but competes with UNSPSC in the United States. In 2006 eCl@ss joined forces with ETIM, which is an important...
  
  
• ETIM (standard)
  ETIM (standard)
  ETIM Deutschland e. V. is an initiative to standardize the electronic exchange of product data for electrical and electronic products to enable the electronic trading of these products...
  
  
• UNSPSC
  UNSPSC
  The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code is a taxonomy of products and services for use in eCommerce. It is a five-level hierarchy coded as an 8-digit number.-Governance:...
  
  
• eOTD
• RosettaNet
  RosettaNet
  RosettaNet is a non-profit consortium aimed at establishing standard processes for the sharing of business information . RosettaNet is a consortium of major Computer and Consumer Electronics, Electronic Components, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Telecommunications and Logistics companies working to...
  
  

Further reading

• De Jager, Salomon, "Solving Data Quality Problems Using Data Standards", Logistics Spectrum, Oct.-Dec. 2007
• Radack, Gerald, "ISO 22745: The Standard for Master Data", Logistics Spectrum, Oct.-Dec. 2007