Open User Community Meeting Report

The link to the last meeting report is provided and the maing topics discussed are summarised.

In the previous OUC meeting (28 April 2022), it was agreed to remove codes from the DocRefContentType code list that are not used, based on the feedback from the OUC.

The aim is to publish the updated list in the September release of EU Vocabularies.

If no objection is received before mid July, the following elements will either be kept or removed from the code list:

A technical code list “Occupation” was included in ESPD v3.0.0 (April 2021), based on ESCO (Multilingualclassification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations), but since then ESCO has been updated.

During June 2022, EU Vocabularies will provide the genericode file and a link to point to the ESCO website, which will be available in the next ESPD release and will replace the current one.

The definition and analysis of the proposed solution for the UUID is ongoing.

An internal meeting was held with INTERPROC on the 7 June 2022 to discuss the overall approach and the details of the solution.

Currently, request and response samples are being tested to validate the solution with regard to question groups containing variable cardinality.

Requirements linked to Selection Criteria will be addressed after the question group solution is ensured. Changing values of a requirement will have an effect on validation, therefore a suitable solution with regard to reusability needs to be found.

The goal is to include the changes in the UUID in a release during 2023 after validation by the OUC and the change management board.

Since the release of the v3.0.0 of the ESPD, online documentation can be updated without the need of a release.

Developer docs provide information on how to use the artifacts available in GitHub. Technical artifacts only change with an ESPD release, but documentation can be improved without a release.

In the ESPD Exchange Data Model (ESPD-EDM) webpage, information is provided on the last update of each reviewed document. Within the document (in the example presented in the meeting, the Technical Handbook) a final section provides detailed information on the specific changes.

The recently closed GitHub issues (4 issues) and the currently open issues (10 issues) are discussed.

Issue #334, regarding the purely national Exclusion Grounds in ESPD-EDM v3.x.x, will not be solved within the next few months and require a change request on eCertis side.

Issue #287, regarding the request to add a new non-mandatory requirement, Subcontracting Proportion, within several selection criteria, is discussed. If no objections are received before mid July 2022, the requirement will be added in the next ESPD release.

Next OUC meeting: 29 September 2022, 10.00 – 11.30. → New date: 28 September 2022, 10.00 – 11.30

eProcurement Ontology version 3.0.0 beta meeting: 28 June 2022, 14.00-17.00 (link)

The ESPD Annual Seminar is foreseen for the end of November or beginning of December, together with the eSender annual seminar. The date and time will be shared with the OUC as soon as the date is set.

It is requested that a log of the changes of the ESPD-EDM in the different releases is provided, in order to facilitate the decision on whether to develop a new tool or to evolve the current one within the process of upgrading the ESPD version. The requested log is available in the GitHub.

A release planning is requested with information on the type of release (patch, minor or major), the estimated date of the release, the GitHub issues that will be included in the release and implementation requirements for developers.