Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
1. B r ow ser (Net scape, Int er n et E xpl or er , Oper a, …)
CoIN-IQ
Zeno
Integrator
IndiGo Core
Documents
CoIN-EF
Spearmint
CoIN-PR
Help Systems
Related Information
1. T ext-Mining System
Fig. 2.
Information flow in the indiGo platform (upper level presented at CeBIT 2002)
To enhance the functionality of indiGo we connected Zeno with CoIN-PR (CoIN
Project Registry), a project information repository that stores all data about the
projects and associated users. Information about the projects include, for example, the
project type (e.g., research & development, transfer or consulting), status, funding,
project staff, project manager or the list of participating partners. CoIN-PR delivers
information about a specific user's current projects, which is used to index
contributions in Zeno with a project context and to construct queries for CoIN-EF.
Besides commenting the business process models, the user has the opportunity to
recall context-specific lessons learned from CoIN-EF.
To support and enhance the various roles in indiGo text-mining tools will be
applied to analyze the discussions in order to detect new, previously unknown or
hidden information for moderators and other roles, especially with the goal to extend
or improve the lessons learned and the process models.
Based on standard internet technology indiGo is a truly distributed system. While
Zeno is hosted on a web server at Fraunhofer AIS in Sankt Augustin, Germany, the
CoIN system family is located at and maintained by Fraunhofer IESE in
Kaiserslautern, Germany.
4.1
The indiGo Integrator
The integrator is the glue between a document server like CoIN-IQ and a server for
related information like Zeno. It provides an integrated view upon a document and
related information. Based on Perl the integrator is a CGI script that offers three
fundamental functions that are called either by CoIN-IQ or Zeno:
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Discuss: This function creates a split view upon a document and related
information. In the current indiGo context this is a view on the specific business
