Gateway for User Access to Remote Distributed Information and
Network Services
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project summary and public deliverables.
The GUARDIANS project will identify the technology for the
next generation of Information Management tools and specify how
the required infrastructure will allow distributed components to
interwork. Information Management in this context
encompasses:
- Rich, diverse and interactive content drawn from both web
resources intended to be delivered over the Internet and
interactive digital broadcast content;
- Metadata describing these diverse resources;
- User profiles describing user preferences, both on content
and access configuration;
- Advanced search and notification services (traditionally
called Selective Dissemination of Information SDI);
- Information Object Agent technology capable of comparing
resources and their metadata descriptions to identify related
materials;
- Distributed software technology for dynamic management and
update of metadata, with specific reference to problems related
to availability and accessibility of multimedia resources.
The GUARDIANS project will build upon the results generated by
the GESTALT project
in the 4th Framework ACTS Programme.
GESTALT defined a flexible, component-based architecture for the
discovery and delivery of modular training and education
services. GUARDIANS will extend this architecture utilising
various emerging technologies. The focus will be expanded from a
purely learning/training domain to encompass more generic
Information Management issues.
