D13: The ICONS Graphic Interface – Design Specification

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Information about the document:

Project Number: IST-2001-32429
Project Acronym: ICONS
Title: The ICONS Graphic Interface – Design Specification
Deliverable No.: D13
Due date: 01.01.03
Delivery Date: 15.08.03
Partners owning: ICS
Partners contributed: - Rodan
Made available to: confidential within the consortium

Short Description:

This report comprises a technical specification for the ICONS graphical interfaces meeting the requirements formulated in the preceding reports [ICONS D11, ICONS D12 and ICONS D16]. Graphical user interfaces of the ICONS platform consist of several complementary modules that are implemented at top of the ICONS content repository and accomplishing various user interaction paradigms. The following modules are specified:

Electronic Form Manager that is used in content management systems to create, update and search content objects through forms;
Content Presentation Manager that pertains to displaying, usually in the Internet browser, of multimedia content objects comprised in the content repository;
Knowledge Map Graph Manager that provides in a graphical interface access to services offered by the Categorisation Engine - Knowledge Map on the user interface level in an effective and user friendly way;
Structural Knowledge Graph Manager that is to be an end-user tool for querying and browsing in an object-oriented content base;
Process Graph Manager that extends a standard notation to model business processes, namely Business Process Modeling Notation, to graphically present process instances.

The design specification is presented on the level of implementation details and scenarios of user interaction. In fact, the specification has been developed together with implementation, thus design variants that were not confirmed by implementation are not presented here. Although the individual modules’ aspects were designed before programming, this version of the technical specification reflects the current version of graphical interfaces of the ICONS platform partially validated in the process of an example application development. Indeed, a number of errors and deficiencies as well as improvement proposals were identified and put into development.