Deliverable D13 The ICONS graphic interface design specification

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Deliverable D13The ICONS graphic interface
design specification

• Jacek Plodzien
• Ewa Stemposz
• Institute of Computer Science PAS

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D13- Content of the Report

• Technical specification for the ICONS graphical
  interfaces, meeting the requirements stated in
  the preceding reports.
• The following modules are specified
• Electronic Form Manager
• Content Presentation Manager
• Knowledge Map Graph Manager
• Structural Knowledge Graph Manager
• Process Graph Manager
• The design specification is presented on the
  level of implementation details and scenarios of
  user interaction.

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Electronic Form Manager

• Electronic forms implemented in Electronic Form
  Manager are ubiquitous in content management
  systems, in particular in the Web content
  management area, as means to create, update and
  search content objects.
• An outstanding problem, in particular pertaining
  to the Web-oriented solutions, is the size and
  complexity of the processed data.
• Semi-structureness of the processed XML data
  makes the presentation even more difficult.
• Aspects of ergonomy and user friendliness are of
  the primary importance.

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An example of electronic form
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Content Presentation Manager

• Content presentation pertains to displaying,
  usually in the Internet browser, of multimedia
  content objects comprised in the content
  repository.
• Content is held within the repository in a
  variety of native formats (e.g. CAD, MS Word,
  Acrobat).
• We preserve the possibility to present and/or
  edit the content in the very tool that it was
  originally created.
• A uniform web based browser interface requires
  rendering that facilitates for presenting all of
  them in a consistent HTML compliant way.

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Knowledge Map Graph Manger

• A graphical interface to services offered by the
  Categorisation Engine - Knowledge Map on the user
  interface level.
• Application specific knowledge maps are to be
  defined and materialised. Provide means to
  categorise information objects stored in the
  content repository.
• Knowledge Map Graph Manger enhances ICONS
  potentials with respect to navigation and search.
  
• Users can drill down into consecutive levels of
  categorisation hierarchy to find more and more
  pertinent information among fewer and fewer
  occurrences.

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Knowledge Map from the Structural Fund domain
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Structural Knowledge Graph Navigator

• Accomplishes visual querying of the ICONS content
  base assuming the metaphor based on navigation in
  a graph representing stored data structures.
• Two particular forms of the graph imply the
  following retrieval or browsing scenarios
• Extensional navigation. In this retrieval
  paradigm the user directly navigates through the
  graph of objects moving his/her focus according
  to links connecting objects.
• Intentional navigation. The user navigates
  through a graph representing the database schema.
  
• Baskets storing temporary and final query results.

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Intentional navigation frame
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Process Graph Manager

• Workflow management system to provide a
  simple-to-use but powerful and easy communication
  between vendors and users.
• Modeling business processes of organizations.
• Implemented a standard notation to model business
  processes, namely Business Process Modeling
  Notation. It specifies how to model business
  processes.
• It proposes three types of process models
  private (internal), interface (public/abstract)
  and collaboration process models.

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A visualisation example for process execution
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Conclusion

• Prototypes of ICONS graphical user interfaces are
  ready to use.
• The specification has been developed together
  with implementation.
• Although modules were designed before
  programming, the technical specification reflects
  the current version of graphical interfaces of
  the ICONS platform partially validated in the
  process of example application development.
• A number of errors and deficiencies as well as
  improvement proposals were identified and put
  into development.