Interoperability of Virtual Organizations
on Complex Semantic Grid
www.InteliGrid.com
Semantic document management
system for engineering
on-line collaboration
M. Dolenc, R. Klinc, K. Kurowski and A. Gehre
matevz.dolenc@fgg.uni-lj.si
IST-2004-004664
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
Institute of Civil Engineering, Earthquake Engineering and Construction IT
Chair of Construction Informatics
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Content
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InteliGrid
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Context
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Vision
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Requirements
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Technology
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Architecture
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Exchange and sharing of information
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Document management
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Architecture
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Tools and services
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Conclusions
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InteliGrid context
European large scale
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engineering industries
huge number of experts
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a wide range of software
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and hardware resources
dynamic virtual
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organization
secure information sharing
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Engineering domains
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construction
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automotive
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shipbuilding
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...
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InteliGrid is providing information infrastructure
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Generic end-user scenario
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Exchange and sharing
of information
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Data types
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2D CAD drawings
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3D Product model data
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electronic documents
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Highly importation
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20% - 30% total project time spent on data exchange
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(pre- and post-processing exchanged information)
errors due to data loss
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Dedicated project collaboration tools
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exchange of information  document storage space
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interoperability issues
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use several collaboration system concurrently
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Conject – InteliGrid partner
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Document management
system (DMS)
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The main end-user question is how to
securely find and share information within VO.
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Document management
system (DMS)
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Requirements
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Security, dynamic VO issues
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Heterogeneous data sources
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Availability, virtualization, data location independence
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Personalised, easy data retrieval
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Service oriented implementation
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End-user way of working must/should not change
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InteliGrid technologies
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CC2007, St. Julians, Malta, 18 - 21 September 2007 Semantic document management system for engineering on-line collaboration

InteliGrid architecture
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DMS architecture
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BPO
Ontology Services
Service
Ontology VO Service Resource
Mngmt Mngmt Mngmt Mngmt Directory
Service
InteliGrid
Document
Portal
Management
Service
(Conject)
Document
Management
Application
Data Access
Grid
and
Authorization
Management
Service
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DMS deployment
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TUD -
PSNC -
Ontology services
GAS
Directory service
RDMS storage
OGSA-DAI
CONJ -
DMS service
WebDAV storage
LJU -
DMS service
WebDAV storage
RDMS storage
SOF -
OGSA-DAI
DMS enabled
services and apps
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Sequence diagram: finding data
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End user experience (1)
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Support for different OSs
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Integration with client applications
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InteliGrid toolkit
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Wrappers for batch applications
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End user experience (2)
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annotations
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upload / download
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portal based on-line access
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integration in automatic workflow execution
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Conclusions
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Prototype implementation
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ongoing development
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end-user application integration
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enabling other services to use DMS
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OGSA-DAI extensions
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Challenges
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Entering metadata information
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correctness, consistency
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integration with end-user applications
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Providing user context
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...
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more at www.InteliGrid.com
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