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  • Architectural foundations of a construction information network
    Turk, Žiga ; Amor, R.
    Integrated information system about construction products and information willbecome an important catalyst of the global construction market. In the frame of European Union;s Technology Transfer ... Network such a one-stop-shop for the construction industry of Europe has been developed. During 1999, partners from the UK, Finland and Slovenia have been working on a pan-European virtual technology park on the Internet - CONNET. CONNET is designed as a set loosely coupled nodes, operated by the different partners inthe project. The nodes are integrated on both a semantic and technical levels. The first integrates the information offered by the nodes by providingthe mapping and translations between the meta-data and the classification systems. On the technical level, the services are integrated by providing user management and cross-node searching enabled by a publicly defined application interfaces. This paper presents aspects in the design and development of the system. We learned that in integrated, industry-wide information systems, several information schemata and classification systems must coexist; that they will not necessarily be based on standardized building product models and existing building product classification systems but on metadata standards developed outside the construction sector. We present an architecture of loosely coupled, federated services on the Web, which are flexible enough to provide a unified interface to various construction related data. The use of open standards for meta-information, Internet technology and object oriented design and analysis approach proved vital for the success of the project
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 1999
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1017953