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5 <work-package number="5">
6 <name>Distribution</name>
7 <begin>Month 18</begin>
9 <leader file="dfki/kohlhase"/>
10 <person-month participant="bologna" number="6"/>
11 <person-month participant="inria" number="5"/>
12 <person-month participant="dfki" number="8"/>
13 <person-month participant="nijmegen" number="3"/>
14 <person-month participant="aei" number="5"/>
15 <person-month participant="trusted-logic" number="0"/>
17 <p>Overall architectural design of the distribution model,
18 its implementation and integration with the consultation
22 <p>The work is articulated in three, conceptually sequential
26 <name>Architectural Design of the Distribution Model.</name>
28 issue it to find the right compromise between two opposite
29 requirements: <em>distribution</em> (in the sense of the
30 Web: few rules, no central authority) and <em>coherence</em>
31 (coherence between different copies of a same document
32 and global management of the library as a single rational
33 development). Other architectural problems to be solved
34 are the management of Uniform Resource Identifiers, their
35 mapping to Uniform Resource Locators, and the integration
36 of databases in the distribution model. The final aim is
37 to have a <em>phisically</em> distributed library with a
38 single <em>logical</em> view.</p>
41 <name>Prototype implementation.</name>
42 <p>First prototyping implementation
43 of the distribution layer.</p>
46 <name>Integration with the Consultation Engine.</name>
48 implementation of the library as a distributed repository.
49 Distribution should be completely transparent to users of
50 the Consultation Engine.</p>
54 <deliverable file="distribution/d5a"/>
55 <deliverable file="distribution/d5b"/>
57 <p>The main milestone is the release of the advanced MOWGLI
58 prototype, for the fourth meeting of the project, at month
59 24. The advanced prototype will integrate the previous one
60 with the new distribution facilities offered by the
61 distribution layer.</p>