Underwood, J and Watson, A (2003) An XML metadata approach to seamless project information exchange between heterogeneous platforms. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 10(2), pp. 128-145. ISSN 0969-9988
Abstract
A three year Esprit project - ProCure - is ultimately aiming to take a significant but achievable step forward in the application of available information and communication technology (ICT) to the large scale engineering (LSE) construction industry. The ProCure consortium consists of five industrial partners supported by four associated research and expert partners. The project combines leading expertise from three member states to support ICT deployment by three industrial collaborative groups, i.e. UK, Germany and Finland. The basis of the project is in the partners' belief that sufficient ICT is now available to achieve deployment with care, in real projects, with an acceptable risk of failure. This paper presents work undertaken within the project to investigate the various metadata standards that exist in order to define a minimum metadata set based on these standards for the implementation of two demonstrators for XML based automated document exchange between a simulation of a corporate document management system and a simulation of a collaborative construction project Web site.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | collaboration; construction industry; information exchange; information technology strategy; web sites |
| Index terms: | platform, consortium, Finland, implementation, construction industry, information and communication technology, information technology strategy, management system, information exchange, Germany, construction project, collaboration |
| Subjects: | contractual arrangements, data science, computing systems, data management, partnership management, industry analysis, management, Geography, production management, digital design |
| Topics: | Digital Applications, Organizational Design, Project Management, Geographical Context, Research Practice, Stakeholder Management, Procurement |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCT |
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