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Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie OASIS Integrated Collaboration Object Model (ICOM) Deirdre Lee Laura Dragan Copyright 2009 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved.

What is the OASIS ICOM TC? Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie n Chartered in March 2009 n Aim: To specify the normative standards for collaboration objects for a broad range of collaboration activities in an integrated and interoperable collaboration environment. n Encompass and improve on existing collaboration models. 2 of xyz

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Who are the ICOM TC Digital Enterprise Research Institute n www. deri. ie New members welcome… 4 of xyz

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A Network of Knowledge Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie Interconnected n Universal n All encompassing n Enable global and local collaboration n The right information for the right people at the right time n 6 of xyz

Problem with Collaboration Tools Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie n Disjoint and incompatible collaboration tools n Technology driven tools require constant context switching to perform a single task n Inability to aggregate diverse types of collaboration data by project, task, or metadata n Proliferation of Web 2. 0 content silos weakens corporate governance n Need to collaborate across organizational boundaries with external parties 7 of xyz

Many Collaboration Environments exist… Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie 8 of xyz

Collaboration Environments are also Informational Islands! Digital Enterprise Research Institute 9 of xyz www. deri. ie

Unified Collaboration Environments? Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie n Soaring costs or technical barriers for integrating silos of repositories n Many collaboration environments are ¨ Vendor-specific ¨ Lack a standard model, interface, and protocol …especially in the enterprise domain 10 of xyz

Standard Collaboration Model Digital Enterprise Research Institute n www. deri. ie Provides a complete range of collaboration activities so that customers, independent software vendors, and system integrators can build contextual collaboration environments using service components from multiple vendors. 11 of xyz

ICOM Digital Enterprise Research Institute n Objective ¨ n www. deri. ie To define the classes, attributes, relationships, and behaviour of objects for a broad range of collaboration activities around shared-workspace teamwork, communication, content, coordination, and social networking ICOM is workspace centric Workspace is a durable context and place to collaborate. ¨ Examples of contexts are projects, asynchronous meetings, and libraries ¨ 12 of xyz

ICOM includes diverse classes of objects Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie Teamwork ¨ shared workspaces, discussion forums, real-time conferences, presence, etc. Communication ¨ e-mail, instant message, telephony, RSS Content ¨ text and multi-media contents, contextual connections, taxonomies, folksonomies, tags, saved searches, etc. 13 of xyz

ICOM includes diverse classes of objects Digital Enterprise Research Institute s www. deri. ie Coordination ¨ address books, calendars, tasks, journals, etc. Social networking ¨ articulated social networks among users, communities, groups, activities, wiki pages, blogs, recommendations, social bookmarking, etc. 14 of xyz

Encompass and improve on existing standards Digital Enterprise Research Institute 15 of xyz www. deri. ie

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ICOM may be expressed in any language Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie 17 of xyz

Merging ICOM data in different languages Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie 18 of xyz

ICOM RDF Model Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie 19 of xyz

ICOM (RDF) Neologism Store Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie 20 of xyz

SIOC 4 CWE -> ICOM Digital Enterprise Research Institute SIOC Class sioc: Site sioc: Container sioc: Item sioc: User. Account sioc: User. Group sioc: Post sioc: Space sioc: Role sioc: Forum foaf: Person www. deri. ie ICOM Class icom: Space icom: Folder icom: Entity icom: Actor icom: Group icom: Artifact icom: Space icom: Role icom: Forum Icom: Actor 21 of xyz

Nepomuk-> ICOM Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie Nepomuk Class pimo: Person. Group nie: Information. Element nfo: Folder nfo: Document nco: Contact ncal: Calendar nmo: Event nmo: Message pimo: Task ICOM Class icom: Actor icom: Group icom: Artifact icom: Folder icom: Document icom: Contact icom: Calendar icom: Occurence icom: Message icom: Task 22 of xyz

Use-Case 1: ICOM for consolidating workspace applications Digital Enterprise Research Institute 23 of xyz www. deri. ie

Use-case 2: ICOM for integrating collaboration objects with business objects in enterprise workplace portal Digital Enterprise Research Institute www. deri. ie 24 of xyz

ICOM Extensions Digital Enterprise Research Institute n n n n www. deri. ie Email Calendar Task Presence Conference User Profile Community Membership n n n Address Book Content Forum Access Control Metadata Tags Are you working on a collaboration model in any of these areas? ? ? 25 of xyz