Editing ConsuML

'''[http://sourceforge.net/projects/consuml ConsuML] is the project name for developing XML grammar on [[Sourceforge]].'''

ConsuML stands for '''Consumption Markup Language.'''

ConsuML is licensed under GNU [[GPL]].

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===Current (short) description:===

The goal of ConsuML development is to produce an XML tag schema that can be used to markup information within [[The Consumerium Exchange]] and [[Backend Information]] for generating stub articles to the [[Content Wiki]] on-demand.

This information includes (very incomplete):
*[[Companies]]
*[[Product]]s
*[[Campaigner]]s
*[[Campaigns]] ([[Boycott]], [[Endorsement]] and [[Neutral]])

'''ConsuML is not the top development priority. Instead the focus is on the [[Content Wiki]]'''

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===Old description:=== 
[[Consumerium]] is a not-for-profit project, developed under [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to develop [[w:free software|free software]] and [[Hardware Requirements|infrastructure]] for storage, transport and display of [[Features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s and [[feedback]] to the [[producer]]s to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible in the future.

The goal of ConsuML development is to produce an XML tag schema that can be used to markup information about 

*natural and [[infrastructural services]] underlying products from [[resource extraction]] to [[production]] and [[distribution]] to [[Point of Sale]]
*specific [[product]]s and their [[features]] and [[product group]] schemes focusing expecially on environmental, social responsibility, corporate citizenship and ethics issues,
*[[companies]] and other real organisations and their interrelations
*[[virtual communities]] with common buying guidelines and their democratic or other governance
*[[individual person]]s paying respect to their [[privacy]],
*[[production]], [[trade]], [[logistic]], [[environmental]], [[labor]] and [[financial]] processes, 
*[[Temporal information]] (times, timelines) and [[spatial information]] (geographic) and the composition of these with other data mentioned here
*opinions, facts and arguments regarding buying decisions and their actual effects
*[[feedback]] regarding services offered by companies

for use in the Consumerium-project and other applicable [[Point of Sale]] applications paying special attention to maintaining the historical data so that when the current data is changed the historical state is preserved for retrospection and 
*XSLT-transformations to facilitate data-interchange with other information systems or languages used to express similar or related information, such as [[ebXML]] and [[IXRetail]]
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