ECOSPACE

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Wolfgang Prinz Wolfgang Prinz
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Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Marc Pallot Marc Pallot
Network & Communication (email)
ESoCE-NET, Paris, France
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[edit] Interoperable Collaborative Working Environment for eProfessionals

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"The ECOSPACE vision is to bring together semantic and social web (Web 2.0) through a user-centric interoperability approach towards the collaborative web or web 3.0!"

Project_Abstract - Consortium - ECOSPACE_at_ICT2008 - ECOSPACE_Video

Pictures of the CWE Interoperability at LABORANOVA stand
Pictures of the CWE Interoperability at LABORANOVA stand

ECOSPACE project is developing, based on emerging trends and distance factors affecting collaboration efficiency and effectiveness, an Interoperable collaborative working environment (ICWE) for eProfessionals in the domains of eResearch (online communities of researchers), ePublishing, eConsulting, eGovernment, eInnovation (Living Labs stakeholders) and almost everywhere professionals are applying (online) distributed collaboration.

A CWE reference architecture as well as a large set of collaboration services and tools are developed or enhanced for constituting an interoperable collaborative environment. Some of the used concepts have already been contributed to standardisation initiatives (W3C, OASIS ICOM TC).

ECOSPACE ICWE
ECOSPACE ICWE

The above figure illustrates key ICWE elements such as:

ECOSPACE enables eProfessionals to get access to both, their individual shared workspace and groups or communities shared workspaces wherever they are, whenever they need it independent of organisational boundaries. For example users, will no longer think in term of IT such as:

  • “exchange or upload this file,
  • open an ftp session, send document as e-mail attachment,
  • set-up a videoconference session”.
SW Tools Interoperability
SW Tools Interoperability

They will rather think in terms of activities such as:

  • share this document with my colleagues involved in the approval procedure,
  • or give visibility of my:
    • publication list,
    • biography
    • research topics

to my colleagues in the professional community.

No longer users:

  • need to know by heart all the details of the single collaboration application tools (functions, configurations, user management), in order to activate and use them properly.
  • must learn new collaboration tools whenever they participate in a new team that uses different products.
  • are drowned by the complexity of multi-channel communication in the dynamic work environment.
CWE Interoperability demo stand
CWE Interoperability demo stand

ECOSPACE provides the interoperability that enables users to connect their preferred tool to the global workplace similar to the ease by which today users can exchange email between different organisations, using different tools. ECOSPACE empowers users to instantly plan and monitor cooperation activities in different teams and communities using a personalised, dynamic workplace, generated on-the-fly according to the context-specific needs. To demonstrate the feasibility of the CWE reference architecture based interoperability approach, ECOSPACE has developed a Shared Workspace (SW) interoperability demonstrator between 3 different SW tools, namely BSCW, Business Collaborator and MS-SharePoint.

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