Electronic delivery of an item

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User story

Some goods/services bought by Contracting Authorities are delivered electronically. Examples are

• Electronic media like eBooks, pictures, videos etc.
• Online Course

Usually, the delivery is executed by sending an e-mail, providing a download link or giving access to an online platform.

Proposal

In CEN/TC 440/WG 5 we discussed, how this can be modelled extensively considering a dedicated indicator, introducing a dedicated item type an extending and reusing existing business terms. As far as we could see, the other WG of CEN/TC 440 do not have such a business term that we can use for this purpose.

From our perspective, reusing the the attribute epo-cat:hasTransactionConditions and adding an additional epo-cat:hasTransactionConditionsCode would be the best solution in terms of flexibility and keeping the impact on implementors small. This is also in line with the current appoach by Peppol: https://docs.peppol.eu/poacc/upgrade-3/2024-Q2/syntax/Catalogue/cac-CatalogueLine/cac-Item/cac-TransactionConditions/

Extend the CatalogueLine:

epo-cat:CatalogueLine
  + ...
  +-- [0..1] epo-cat:hasTransactionConditions: rdf:PlainLiteral
  +-- [0..1] epo-cat:hasTransactionConditionsCode: <voc:*>

Adapt the definition

• epo-cat:hasTransactionConditions: Textual description of the specific transaction conditions (purchasing, sales, payment, delivery) for an item.
• epo-cat:hasTransactionConditionsCode: Code for the specific transaction conditions (purchasing, sales, payment, delivery) for an item.