Project Number: IST-2001-32429
Project Acronym: ICONS
Title: Standards base for the ICONS project
Deliverable No.: D04
Due date: 30.03.02
Delivery Date: 10.06.02
Partners owning: ICS
Partners contributed: InfoVide, Rodan
Made available to: Internal circulation within project (and Commission Project Officer + reviewers if requested)
The document presents a classification frame concerning content management topics that should be considered during analysis of the industry standards to the ICONS project. The following rough classification of standards is assumed:
software life cycle, software development environment,
content life cycle, content development environment,
interoperability, portability, distribution, information exchange, integration of heterogeneous resources,
quality of service, privacy and security,
graphical user interfaces,
data, knowledge and metadata representation and processing,
architectures of content management systems and their API-s,
application developer and user learning,
implementation standards, code conventions, application development environments, API standards.
According to this classification the project participants have considered existing industry standards in order to estimate their relevance to the project,
as well as their maturity, popularity and the potential for the future.
This work on collecting the standard base will be continued during the time of the project.