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The Knowledge Information and Sharing System of
the ETH-Domain (KISS)
Beat Birkenmeier Dominik Ulmer
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The ETH-domain
Basle
St. Gallen
Zurich
Lucerne
Berne
Lausanne
Geneva
Lugano
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• Basic questions
• Which knowledge is available within the single
  institutions?
• Which knowledge is available within certain
  research areas?
• Which knowledge is available within certain
  application areas?
• Which knowledge is looking for an industrial
  application?
• Which patents are available?
• What is the knowledge of single researchers?

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• Project goals
• To establish a platform which allows
• a simple presentation of information about
  exploitable knowledge on a common electronic user
  interface for all institutions and, at the same
  time
• quick and user-friendly access to this
  information by the interested public

• Basic conditions
• a high degree of de-centralisation
• the diversity of research and teaching
• the variety of the IT environments in the
  different institutions

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• Design principles (I)
• Decentralised Editing by independent
  project-/research groups
• Responsibility for content lies on one QA account
  per institution
• Centralised resources for operation
• Maximal use of existing information

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• Design principles (II)
• Data model and applications are realised once
  centrally
• Clients enter the application locally via
  Web-Technology
• User-databases are managed locally by the
  institutions
• Contents are activated per Institution
• only core information (meta-data) is held in the
  central data-base whereas detailed information
  can be found on web-pages linked with the
  meta-data base

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Applications overview
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• The architecture
• The System is based on a Three-Tier-Architecture
  
• A relational database (ORACLE 8i) with the
  structured meta-data and links to unstructured
  data
• An application server which provides the
  application based on Java active server pages and
  which represents the intermediate layer
• The users standard browser

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www.knowledgetransfer.ch edits structured meta
data

• Project title/-number
• Date of project start/end
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Research field
• Scientific target
• Optional ARAMIS-Data

• Benefit of possible applications
• Links to URLs
• Personal data of researchers involved in the
  project
• Possibilities for participation
• Patent data/Product data
• Publications

• Editing data
• by researchers or central organisational units
• Management of authorisations by a flexible task
  concept

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Institution 1
Research group
Project Homepage
Editing
Editor
User DB
Editing Tool Editor
DB- Admintool
Editing Tool Researcher
Boolean Search
Applications without user authorisation
Editing Tool Project Leader
Fuzzy Search
KISS-DB
Research Reports
KISS- Application
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• Search application
• Accessible via Internet
• Sophisticated probabilistic search on
  standardised meta-data and linked web-sites (hit
  list standardised project reports and URL)
• Boolean search of standard fields
• Optional
• Compilation of research reports by institutions

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Institution 1
Research group
Project Homepage
Searching
Editing Tool Redactor
DB- Admintool
Editing Tool Researcher
Boolean Search
Editing Tool Project Leader
Fuzzy Search
KISS-DB
Internet users
Research Reports
KISS- Application
Applications without user authorisation
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The search template
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The hit list
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Add-ons
It is possible to extend the functionality of the
application according to the needs of the
institutions
Standardised core-application
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Operational organisation
1st level Support
2nd level Support
3rd level Support
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The Homepage
www.knowledgetransfer.ch will be accessible to
the public as soon as there will be a certain
number of research projects. Contact ulmer_at_ethra
t.ch birkenmeier_at_bresults.ch
Thank you for your attention!