Management Systems
In this research line we explore models for managing the lifecycle of scientific artifacts through a tool for capturing and tracing the evolution of liquid publications
LiquidPublications Management System
The LiquidPublications Management System (LPMaSys) is a tool that aims at providing a straight forward method for the specification and automated execution of processes concerned with the creation, dissemination, and evaluation of research work. Examples of research related processes are creating and running conferences, managing projects, writing papers collaboratively, compiling books, and so on.
The LPMaSys's goals may be divided into two main parts: (1) providing an easy way for the specification of process models, and (2) providing an automated generation and update of a web-based user interface for the related researchers (or personnel), eliminating the need for manual modifications every time the process model is modified.
More information is available here, and a brief introductory presentation is also available here.
Lifecycle Management
The LiquidPub project sits on the concept of liquid publications, a key concept that denotes the idea that contributions can take any form (not just papers) and can evolve in time in a cooperative environment. According to these properties, liquid publications can go through different phases during their evolution, involving different people playing different roles. Lifecycles provide us the tool to capture and manage this evolution.
We refer to a scenario in which simple research and/or research projects are carried on, and explore models and a tools for lifecycle management. The main research and practical result is Gelee, a tool for managing the lifecycle of web artefacts.
In a nutshell, with Gelee you can:
- Manage the lifecycle of any artifact identifiable by a URI.
- Define a quality plan and change it as you go
- Execute and drive your quality plan in a collaborative environment
Publications
Universal Resource Lifecycle Management M. Baez, F. Casati, M. Marchese. This paper presents a model and a tool that allows Web users to define, execute, and manage lifecycles for any artifact available on the Web. In the paper we show the need for lifecycle management of Web artifacts, and we show in particular why it is important that non-programmers are also able to do this. We then discuss why current models do not allow this, and we present a model and a system implementation that achieves lifecycle management for any URI-identifiable and accessible object. The most challenging parts of the work lie in the definition of a simple but universal model and system (and in particular in allowing universality and simplicity to coexist) and in the ability to hide from the lifecycle modeler the complexity intrinsic in having to access and manage a variety of resources, which differ in nature, in the operations that are allowed on them, and in the protocols and data formats required to access them. Gelee: Cooperative Lifecycle Management for (Composite) Artifacts. Marcos Báez, Cristhian Parra, Fabio Casati, Maurizio Marchese, Florian Daniel, Kasia di Meo, Silvia Zobele, Carlo Menapace, Beatrice Valeri ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009: 645-646, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10383-4_50 Resources
For a complete reference, publications and for trying out Gelee, please refer to this url:
http://project.liquidpub.org/gelee/
See Gelee in action, in the following video:
