Work Package : Requirement Analysis
Begin: Month 0
End: Month 6
Contribution of Each Site (in Man Monthes):
Objectives:
- Definition of the application scenarios.
- Precise articulation of all the functionalities required
by the system, and all possible expected interactions
with documents.
- Overall requirements of the distribution model of the
library.
Description:
The work plan is naturally organised in subtasks according
to the different basic kind of interactions and manipulation
to be considered, namely:
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T1.1 Mathematics and the Web.
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Mathematics and the Web.
State of the art, standards and
tools.
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T1.2 Structured and Formal Mathematics.
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Structured and Formal Mathematics.
Delineation and
layering of Semantic Components. Requirements for
the interaction with tools for the automation of formal
reasoning.
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T1.3 Metadata.
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Metadata.
Classification and data mining for content-based
mathematical documents, and key architectural guidelines
for the metadata model.
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T1.4 Searching and Retrieving.
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Searching and Retrieving.
State of the art, use cases and
application scenarios.
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T1.5 Distribution.
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Distribution.
Distributed document repositories and
peer-to-peer interoperability.
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T1.6 Document Authoring.
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Document Authoring.
State of the art, use cases and
application scenarios.
Part of the activity, covering Tasks T1.1-2-6 should be
concluded within the first three months, with the
preliminary report D1.a. The main aim of this phase is
to rapidly reach a good level of inter-operability among the
different sites, by implementing a suitable politic of
knowledge and skills transfer between the members of the
consortium (short visits and/or small thematic workshops,
according to the case).However, some delicate issues, such as Metadata, Searching
and Retrieving and Distribution (Task T1.3-4-5) will
eventually require a deeper analysis (deliverables D1.b and
D1.c).WP1 will be eventually closed during the first meeting of
the Project (month six), when all the reports will be
discussed and approved.Deliverables:
Milestones and Expected Results:
The preliminary report D1.a is not a realmilestone:
it should be considered as a first internal draft summarising
the main functionalities required by the system and the basic
intelligence to add to documents, as markup and/or metadata,
to meet these requirements. All these issues will be
eventually detailed in D1.b and D1.c, which are real
Milestones, since the rest of the work will be largely
driven by them.
