NAMM Ad-hoc Technology Meets to Expand B2B Standards
At this year's NAMM Show, NAMM’s Ad-Hoc Technology Committee concluded another round of face-to-face meetings. For the past few years, experts from across all channels of the music products industry have partnered together, designing XML-based documents developed to streamline and improve electronic transactions between trading partners in the music products industry.
The committee is currently focusing on a unified categorization standard to facilitate interchange of product data between sellers and buyers. In the coming weeks, a proposed draft from the meeting will be published for comments on http://www.namm.org. Other topics discussed included documents to support electronic software distribution.
The NAMM Standards Implementation Guide and Specifications are published on NAMM’s Web site at http://www.namm.org/initiatives/b2b. This site is open to all NAMM Members and also features related resources for NAMM Members.
The Ad-Hoc Technology Committee comprises technical experts who represent NAMM Member companies. The committee is made up of Paul Ward, Roland U.S.; Robin Walenta, West Music; MaryAnne DelMundo, Guitar Center; Jerry Grochowski, Hal Leonard; Greg Bryniak, D’Addario; Amy Pearson, Sweetwater; William McGloine, Korg; Pat Murphy, Tri-Tech; Gordon O'Hara, RetailUp!; Gary Duvall, Yamaha; and Dan Kessler, NAMM.