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