Objective
The EUROCOOP project aimed to develop powerful and effective systems for supporting distributed collaborative work. The approach adopted was to integrate components from a number of existing systems and to develop new collaborative tools based on the study of a large-scale technical application that encompasses many collaboration problems. Single components tools were developed that can be integrated with existing tools and that are able to interoperate with each other.
The project aimed to develop powerful and effective systems for supporting distributed collaborative work. The approach adopted is to integrate components from a number of existing systems and to develop new collaborative tools based on the study of a large scale technical application that encompasses many collaboration problems.
A task monitoring system was developed which enabled people to keep track of the status and results of ongoing collaborative activities. It provided support for asynchronous group work. It notified those involved of deadlines and expected actions, alerted users in case of emerging difficulties, or enabled them to delegate tasks to others. An an addition to this system, meeting support tools were developed. Synchronous document preparation by a distributed group of people is important in many collaborative projects. A prototype of a synchronous shared window conferencing tool was developed and will be further improved. This especially supports the codesign of documents.
Information must be shared as required between members of a distributed work group. Such information will be of many different forms, and must be linked in many different ways. A distributed hypermedia design toolkit provides support for the design of documents containing a broad range of different materials, including the ability to specify links between and within these documents. The documents are stored in a distributed object oriented database. A user centred approach has been taken in the design and development of these tools. The application area was the project management of the construction of a combined bridge and tunnel over the Great Belt in Denmark.
An increasing number of people are involved in projects that are distributed within or even between organisations, so that people often collaborate with others in different physical locations. EUROCOOP aimed to provide integrated computer tools and services to support such spatially distributed groups, with a particular focus on project management issues.
Project management is a difficult task in the best of circumstances. It becomes even more complicated if a geographically distributed group of people is involved. The EUROCOOP project paid particular attention to some of these problems.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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Programme(s)
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Coordinator
90762 FÜRTH
Germany
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