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Cloud platforms Lead to Open and Universal access for people with Disabilities and for All
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WP 203 - Federating repositories of Solutions and Components
WP 203 – Federating reposit. of solution and components
Activities started in May 2012 (till August 2015)
Objectives in the DoW
• To develop (the methods for maintaining) a single entry point for the retrieval of the information and data required to implement appropriate assistive solutions.•The creation of efficient mechanisms for search and retrieval of accessible services and applications that will be provided in the envisioned Cloud infrastructure• Integrate the information on assistive solutions into the GPII unified listing and marketplace.
WP 203 – Federating repositories of solution and components
Federated repository of Assistive solution within the GPII vision
A way for users to find all of the solutions that exist and to figure out which ones meet their needs.
Federated listing of AT devices
The Cloud4All Federated Repository of avaliable AT solutions will represent one of the sources of information for: 1. The GPII Unified Listing – a comprehensive listing of free and commercial,
open and proprietary source, assistive technologies and features in mainstream products
2. The GPII Marketplace - i.e. a marketplace for "purchasing" commercial and free Access solutions
3. The GPII “shopping aid” that helps the user to find the most appropriate assistive solutions in the unified listing and marketplace
4. The semantic framework for contents and solutions ?/ The matchmaker: one source of information used by the Matchmaker to propose activation of installed AT as well as installation of Assistive technology not yet available locally (see use cases 11-12 D101.2)
Where the WP 203 fits in the overall cloud4all process
Preference server
Preference wizard
Matchmaker (fitter)
Device charact. reporter
Local Solutions reporter
Cloud4All Federated
Repository of AT
Launch managerUser listener
Propose activation of installed AT and install. of AT not available locally
Propose the most appropriate solutions for the user (“pre-sale” matchmaking)
The starting point – the EASTIN network
The starting point for the Solution Database is the EASTIN web portal
Federating Databases of AT The current EASTIN approach
Provider 1 (e.g. SIVA)
Webservice Server
EASTIN
EASTIN Search engine
Data in EASTIN format
Webservice Client
User interface (eastin website)
Product DB
Provider 2 (e.g. HMI Basen)
Webservice Server
Product DB
Provider 3 (e.g. DLF Data)
Webservice Server
Product DB
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Retrieved product
description
Query from the user
I want an on screen keyboard
Product description in the EASTIN portalExample
Basic information
Additional details (formatted text)
Metadata extraction/enhancement
Metadata extraction/enahancement according to
solutions ontology (WP 201)
Property values
Input devices Joystick; Keyboard; Mouse; Touch pad; Touch screen; On screen keyboard; Sing
Activation modality Mechanical (touch, push, pull, squeeze, ...);
Input adjustments Scanning mode; Direct access; Filter keys; Adjustable sensitivity;
Output devices/software
Screen; Printer; Loudspeaker; Vibrator; Tactile display;
Output modality Acoustic/sound; Speech synthesis; Speech recorded;
Free text
Human readableHuman and machine readable
Settings
WP 203 – Connection between EASTIN-Cloud4All and GPII
EASTIN search engine
EASTIN Distributed DB of AT products
EASTIN
Cloud4All compliant detailed settings
GPII Unified listing
GPII Marketplace
Cloud4All Federated Repository
of AT
Automatic generation of metadata for
solution (A 202.1)
GPIISemantic Framework for Contents and Solutions
Toolbox for professional and vendor entry and
maintenance of Metadata (A 202.4)
New product upload tools (A 201.1 + A 202.4)
Vendor
query
Vendor Professional
Professional
Basic information
Det
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Activities led by FDCGO
•A 203.1: Approach and mechanism for federating solution repositories•Definition of a method to harmonize and efficiently retrieve data coming form distributed databases
• A 203.2: Integration of the appropriate subsections of federated data with the GPII Marketplace•Develop and demonstrate the ability to extract relevant information from more general topic disability databases
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•A 202.4 Toolbox for professional and vendor entry and maintenance of Metadata •Implement an application suite for the manual creation, maintenance and update of metadata, based on the developed semantics framework
• Challenges• Harmonize the content coming from different sources and avoid
duplication of data in the federated repository (the same product could be stored in different DBs)• Maintenance/update of data (ICT products become obsolete very
fast) => distributed-collaborative update, update by vendors • Maintenance/update of ontologies and metadata (e.g. when new
technologies become available) => automatic generation of metadata• Evaluate/validate the quality of the information (is the
information correct, complete and accurate) => responsibility of each distributed information source• Clearly mark (and credit) the source of information
What is what
• Cloud4all Federated Repository : This is a federated repository of open source and commercial AT of many types, based on the (distributed) databases of AT
• The GPII Unified Listing : This is a federated repository of open source and commercial AT related to ICT access as well as access features in mainstream products
• The GPII Marketplace :The GPII Marketplace is a place to buy some ICT access products (those that the developers would like to distribute this way). The GPII Marketplace has a "shopping aid" that will draw from Cloud4all work
• The Cloud4all/GPII Solutions Database: In the Cloud4all/GPII architecture - there is reference to two different "Solutions databases”:1. a database of solutions that are present at a particular device that a user is at. This
lists all the local solutions that are available to the user2. a database of information about (ideally all) devices. This can be used by the
matchmaker to determine what features are available for any device that a user might encounter. It allows the matchmaker to know what features are available if the device does not offer up any more information than just its name/make/model. (is this the Semantic Framework of Content and Solutions ?)
From wiki: http://wiki.gpii.net/index.php/Unified_Listing_and_MarketPlace
“Real time”Not in “Real time”
Local solution
Reporter (?)
GPII Unified listing
GPII Marketplace
Cloud4All Federated Repository
of AT
GPII
Shopping aid
Preference wizard
Pref. server
Sem. Frame. of
solutions ?
List of suggested
solutions for the user
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