Objectif The objective of DOEOIS was to design, build and evaluate a small family of prototype Office Information Servers (OIS) capable of holding, in digital electronic form, representations of all office information, including what is currently committed to paper, and also the state of such activities as clerical procedures and industrial processes. The design and evaluation of the OIS were based on survey data directly derived from current office practice. The objective of project was to design, build and evaluate a small family of prototype office information servers (OIS) capable of holding, in digital electronic form, representations of all office information, including what is currently committed to paper, and also the state of such activities as clerical procedures and industrial processes.A common 2-layer representation was established for the information held in the servers and the functions needed to manipulate and manage it. At the lower layer, documents were held in an internalized version of the office document architecture (ODA)/office document interchange format (ODIF) standard, with the descriptive terms in the profile and logical structure made visible. A semantic data model, the fact model, was used to represent the higher level interrelationships between the objects held in the OIS. Key to the project was careful consideration of the issues involved in the handling of office procedures with a view to creating, activating and subsequently monitoring their progress. The functionality of the OIS was embodied in an external functional interface. This was intended to be an open applications interface designed to make applications portable to any OIS conforming to its specification. During the implementation phase 2 prototype servers supporting most of the specified functions, were completed. One was designed as a front end to a relational database management system (RDBMS). The other was on a mainframe resident semantic database management system that exploits hardware search by content of text files. A common real life application was implemented on top of each server to be used as a testbed for evaluating the functionalities provided.A common two-layer representation was established for the information held in the servers and the functions needed to manipulate and manage it. At the lower layer, documents are held in an internalised version of the ODA/ODIF standard, with the descriptive terms in the profile and logical structure made visible. A semantic data model, the Fact Model, is used to represent the higher level interrelationships between the objects held in the OIS. Key to the project was careful consideration of the issues invo lved in the handling of office procedures with a view to creating, activating and subsequently monitoring their progress. The functionality of the OIS was embodied in an External Functional Interface. This is intended to be an open applications interface designed to make applications portable to any OIS conforming to its specification. During the implementation phase two prototype servers supporting most of the specified functions, were completed. One was designed as a front-end to a relational database management system (RDBMS). The other is on a mainframe-resident semantic database management system that exploits hardware search by content of text files. A common real-life application was implemented on top of each server to be used as a testbed for evaluating the functionalities provided. The evaluation was based on a methodology developed within the project for this purpose and included both a technical inspection of the OIS functionality and a live evaluation of a sample application. The latter was compared in terms of measurable benefit indicators against a conventional paper equivalent and also an implementation based on a conventional RDBMS. The results of the evaluation were encouraging, with reductions of over 50% recorded in the time taken to execute highly structured and well-defined office tasks when compared to paper equival nts. Exploitation The analysis and design phases produced two advances: a four-level analysis methodology, which contributed the data needed to specify the functional requirements to be met by a generic server; and the OIS external functional interface, the actual definition of those functions The prototype servers resulted in technological improvements in the companies involved as well as intelligent front-ends to the databases employed. The project also contributed towards the establishment of the ODA tools currently available. Champ scientifique natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesrelational databases Programme(s) FP1-ESPRIT 1 - European programme (EEC) for research and development in information technologies (ESPRIT), 1984-1988 Thème(s) Data not available Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement Data not available Coordinateur International Computers Ltd (ICL) Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Lovelace Road RG12 4SN Bracknell Royaume-Uni Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (3) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire BULL SA France Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 38402 SAINT-MARTIN-D'HERES Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Irlande Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse X DUBLIN 2 Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Universität Stuttgart Allemagne Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Nobelstraße 12 70569 Stuttgart Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée
