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Description of Work
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project is based on 6 core technical Work Packages together with an
overall Project Management activity and a final Performance Assessment
Work Package. The technical development will closely follow existing
European and international standards for data formats, and is likely
to make extensive use of SOAP, XML and JAVA in the development
of Internet-ready applications, and Visual C++ in end application
development. The core technical Work Packages are detailed below:
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| REQUIREMENTS
ANALYSIS: |
Assessment
of end user and data providers needs and HCI design criteria including a
user workshop resulting in specifications of requirements. It is hoped
to encourage a large number of interested parties to participate in this
process as well as the assessment of the project deliverables.
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| DATA
MANAGEMENT: |
Design
and development of a data warehouse and supporting metadata catalog
supported by high speed search, data abstraction and packaging utilities
suited to large 4-dimensional temporal-spatial environmental datasets.
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BROKER INTERFACING & COMMS: |
Design
and development of suitable protocols for communications and messaging
together with a broker interface applet incorporating all protocols and
packaged for integration with existing user systems or as a construction
module for new user applications.
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| E-COMMERCE
INTEGRATION: |
Development
of an E-commerce engine customised for environmental data brokerage and
provided with all the basic operational capability of an off-the-shelf
E-commerce tool.
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BROKER PROTOTYPING: |
Integration
of Data Broker components and development of a GUI. Commissioning and
testing of broker on a test web site using realistic sample datasets.
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BROKER APPLICATIONS PROTOTYPING: |
Development
of two Data Broker-integrated applications; one modifying an existing
marine emergency response information system to interface with the Data
Broker, and the other a simple web-based application for primary data
viewing.
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| PERFORMANCE
ASSESSMENT & EXPLOITATION EVALUATION: |
Implementation
of the application prototypes at the user sites, structured assessment
of the applications and a workshop-based exploitation evaluation. |
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