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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 <p>Architectural Design of the Distribution Model. The big
26 issue it to find the right compromise between two opposite
27 requirements: <I>distribution</I> (in the sense of the
28 Web: few rules, no central authority) and <I>coherence</I>
29 (coherence between different copies of a same document
30 and global management of the library as a single rational
31 development). Other architectural problems to be solved
32 are the management of Uniform Resource Identifiers, their
33 mapping to Uniform Resource Locators, and the integration
34 of databases in the distribution model. The final aim is
35 to have a <I>phisically</I> distributed library with a
36 single <I>logical</I> view.</p>
39 <p>Prototype implementation. First prototyping implementation
40 of the distribution layer.</p>
43 <p>Integration with the Consultation Engine. First
44 implementation of the library as a distributed repository.
45 Distribution should be completely transparent to users of
46 the Consultation Engine.</p>
50 <deliverable file="D5.a"/>
51 <deliverable file="D5.b"/>
53 <p>The main milestone is the release of the advanced MOWGLI
54 prototype, for the fourth meeting of the project, at month
55 24. The advanced prototype will integrate the previous one
56 with the new distribution facilities offered by the
57 distribution layer.</p>