Core Business Vocabulary (CBV)

The Core Business Vocabulary Standard is to specifies various vocabulary elements and their values for use in conjunction with the EPCIS standard, which defines mechanisms to exchange information both within and across company boundaries.  The vocabulary identifiers and definitions in this standard will ensure that all parties who exchange EPCIS data using the Core Business Vocabulary will have a common understanding of the semantic meaning of that data.

This standard is intended to provide a basic capability that meets the above goal.  In particular, this standard is designed to define vocabularies that are core to the EPCIS abstract data model and are applicable to a broad set of business scenarios common to many industries that have a desire or requirement to share data.  This standard intends to provide a useful set of values and definitions that can be consistently understood by each party in the supply chain.

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• CBV Standard v. 1.0
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