IUGO - Conference Information Integration
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Project title
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IUGO: Conference Information Integration
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Start date
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January 2005
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End date
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June 2006
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Lead institution
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ILRT, University of Bristol
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Partner institutions
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None
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Project manager & contact details
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Nikki Rogers Email: nikki.rogers@bristol.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)117 9287113 (Direct)
Tel: +44(0)117 9287193 (Office)
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Project web URL
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http://iugo.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
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Overall description
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Name of VRE solution/s
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IUGO
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Description of VRE solution/s
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Iugo is a Semantic Web application that allows researchers to easily search and browse information relating to past, current and future conferences and other events. Iugo integrates and cross-links existing web information for research events, down to the level of individual sessions or individual presentations. Iugo means to bind together.
The Iugo project has produced a prototype system as proof of the this concept. The Iugo project has also included a significant component of work to examine the potential legal, ethical and social impact issues of a would-be production version of Iugo.
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Primary user group/s
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Researchers and users of research. Also: Event hosts, event organisers, event attendees, those interested in event outputs
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Functionality
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Iugo is a Semantic Web application that allows researchers to easily search and browse information relating to past, current and future conferences and other events. Iugo integrates and cross-links existing web information for research events, down to the level of individual sessions or individual presentations. Iugo means to bind together.
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Benefits
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Time saving - the normally scattered web information to events (blogs, papers, images, session details etc) are linked via Iugo for single point search/browse. Iugo would likely provide a research resource in its own right. Iugo offers the potential for expert users to make sharable comments about the event resources linked to from the system.
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Current level of maturity
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Latest version 0.7, final version of the prototype to be released end September 2006
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Target level of maturity at end of project
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What is the target version of the solution at the end of the project if different from the one above?
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Design & technical implemnetation
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Technical implementation
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Iugo is based upon a customisation of the SWED (http://www.swed.org.uk/swed/index.html) portal software, itself of J2EE design (MVC paradigm). The Model layer constitutes an RDF database (http://jena.sourceforge.net/)
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Architecture
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Please provide brief information on the architectural design of the VRE solution/s. You can insert a diagram here as well.
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Standards compliance
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RDF, XML, a community-driven events ontology (expressed in RDF/XML), J2EE (MVC paradigm)
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Software availability
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The software will be made accessible by the close of project September 2006
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Documentation
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Please list what documentation is available for the solution (e.g. user guides, methodology guides) and how it can be accessed.
(not available currently, installation documentation will be made available with the final IUGO release, and will include pointers to the user guide documentation for the open source SWED software which we have customised for Iugo)
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