The document describes the features and functions of the Share.TEC system for end-users. It discusses the multilingual web portal, search and filtering capabilities, automatic profile-based ranking, integration with external repositories through metadata mapping, a tool for metadata authoring, and classifications of user functions such as account management, profile management, searching, and social/authoring functions.

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The Share.TEC System
Features and Functions for End-Users
Alexander Grigorov, Atanas Georgiev, Krassen Stefanov
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Share.TEC Web Portal
• Multilingual user interface
• Personalization
• Queries in the user’s native language
• Simple and advanced range of parameters
for query filtering
• Knowledge resources sharing and social
functions (rating, tagging, annotating)
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Share.TEC Web Portal (2)
• Key parameter values automaticaly set in
accordance with the user profile
• A multidimensional data search based on
TEO and CMM
• Automatic ranking of search results in
accordance with user profile characteristics
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Partner’s and external repositories
• External well-known digital repositories,
containing relevant TE domain metadata, as well
as the local repositories established at each
project partner site are essential component of
the system
• To support the CMM metadata records, a specific
program called MMF (Metadata Migration Facility)
is provided which main role is translate from well
known metadata formats to CMM format.
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RICK (Resource Integration
Companion Kit)
• RICK is a comprehensive tool for the
creation of new metadata records
• Provides support to individual user setting
some of the metadata fields’ values
automatically (e.g. file type, owner, date,
keywords, etc.) and offering a web form for
filling the required and optional field from
CMM metadata format
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User functions
User functions can be classified into several
groups:
– Account management functions
– Profile management functions
– Searching and navigation functions
– Authoring (social) functions
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Questions
For additional information:
Alexander.Grigorov@fmi.uni-sofia.bg
atanas@fmi.uni-sofia.bg
krassen@fmi.uni-sofia.bg
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