3 <work-package number="5">
4 <name>Distribution</name>
5 <begin>Month 18</begin>
7 <person-month participant="bologna" number="6"/>
8 <person-month participant="inria" number="5"/>
9 <person-month participant="dfki" number="8"/>
10 <person-month participant="nijmegen" number="3"/>
11 <person-month participant="aei" number="5"/>
12 <person-month participant="trusted-logic" number="0"/>
14 <p>Overall architectural design of the distribution model,
15 its implementation and integration with the consultation
19 <p>The work is articulated in three, conceptually sequential
23 <dd>Architectural Design of the Distribution Model. The big
24 issue it to find the right compromise between two opposite
25 requirements: <I>distribution</I> (in the sense of the
26 Web: few rules, no central authority) and <I>coherence</I>
27 (coherence between different copies of a same document
28 and global management of the library as a single rational
29 development). Other architectural problems to be solved
30 are the management of Uniform Resource Identifiers, their
31 mapping to Uniform Resource Locators, and the integration
32 of databases in the distribution model. The final aim is
33 to have a <I>phisically</I> distributed library with a
34 single <I>logical</I> view.</dd>
37 <dd>Prototype implementation. First prototyping implementation
38 of the distribution layer.</dd>
41 <dd>Integration with the Consultation Engine. First
42 implementation of the library as a distributed repository.
43 Distribution should be completely transparent to users of
44 the Consultation Engine.</dd>
47 <deliverable file="D5.a"/>
48 <deliverable file="D5.b"/>
50 <p>The main milestone is the release of the advanced MOWGLI
51 prototype, for the fourth meeting of the project, at month
52 24. The advanced prototype will integrate the previous one
53 with the new distribution facilities offered by the
54 distribution layer.</p>