PREMIUM KNOWLEDGE FOR MARITIME EXPERTS

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PREMIUM KNOWLEDGE FOR MARITIME EXPERTS
The Maritime Industry Information Infrastructure
FDS
Wondermar Workshop, Como 18th November 1999
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MARINFOMaritime Industry Information
InfrastructureEsprit Project No. 24497
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MARINFO Objectives

• MARINFO aims at co-ordinating and improving
• European efforts in the development of
  distributed maritime information environments.
• Information services
• databases, documents, events, organizations, ...
• Communication services
• inter-/intranet based, workflow oriented, ...
• Security services
• public, password protected , encrypted, ...
• Standardizing services
• categories, formats, interfaces, ...

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Co-operative Information Systems
Co-operative Maritime Community Processes
defined by
Players Resources
based on
MARINFO Maritime Information Infrastructure
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MARINFO Application Maintenance Objectives
Flexible quality control man in the loop

Editors

• Examples are
• Maritime Organizations
• Conference Calendar
• Publications
• Glossary
• Group work tool
• Products and Services

Organizations, ...
Experts, ...
High customer interests "give take loop"
Experts, ...
Organizations, ...
Project Groups
Project Groups
Simplified maintenanceend-user maintainability
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MARINFO Service Structure

• MARINFO covers the following service areas

marDATA provides information on maritime players
and resources.
marWORK supports goal-oriented workflow
management and document distribution.
marEXPERT enables skill-and-role based
communication through an expert search engine.
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marDATA - Sites

• Contains information provided by MARINFO
• Who is who in MARINFOFDS, GL, OSS, ...
• Important links to servers of the European
  CommissionCORDIS, MIF, ...
• and information provided and maintained by
  MARINFO users
• Maritime OrganizationsIndustry Organizations,
  Shipbuilders, Equipment Manufacturers, ...
• Maritime Site LinksOther servers that provide
  maritime services

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marDATA - Databases News

• Provides structured access to databases provided
  by Companies/Organizations
• BMT Abstracts
• Maritime projects in CORDIS
• and databases populated and maintained by MARINFO
  users
• Maritime projects in CORDIS
• Marinfo Glossary
• Products and Services
• Links to other Maritime Databases
• Conferences, Workshops and Exhibitions
• Maritime Publications

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marEXPERT

• marEXPERT supports
• searching experts based on maritime categories,
  keywords (skills) and expert roles
• communication via email
• registration of new experts, maintenance of
  expert profiles

Skills
Roles
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marWORK

• Provides access to
• documents important for maritime RD
• The maritime RD Masterplan
• Introduction to the Fifth Framework Programme
• documents describing important RD structures
• RD Co-ordination Group (RDCG)
• Thematic Networks
• a workflow-oriented project support tool

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MARINFO Search

• The MARINFO full text search engine enables users
  to search
• in selected areas of MARINFO, e.g.,
• marDATA
• RD Masterplan
• the whole MARINFO system
• static pages and
• MARINFO databases
• parts of the remote CORDIS database
• selected external sites, e.g.,
• http//www.Cordis.lu/fifth/home.html
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/fp5.html
• ....

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MARINFO System Technology

• HTML pages
• Java Applet(s), JavaScript

Presentation Layer

• (Secure) HTTP Server
• Platform independent server applications
• Database interfaces (query, input,
  administration)
• HTML Generators (Servlets, CGIs, ...)
• Indexing Machines

Application Layer

• SQL Servers
• File Systems

Storage Layer