OASIS Integrated Collaboration Object Model (ICOM)

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OASIS Integrated Collaboration Object Model (ICOM)

Deirdre LeeLaura Dragan


What is the OASIS ICOM TC?

Chartered in March 2009

Aim: To specify the normative standards for collaboration objects for a broad range of collaboration activities in an integrated and interoperable collaboration environment.

Encompass and improve on existing collaboration models.

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Who are the ICOM TC

New members welcome…

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A Network of Knowledge

Interconnected Universal All encompassing

Enable global and local collaboration

The right information for the right people at the right time

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Problem with Collaboration Tools

Disjoint and incompatible collaboration tools

Technology driven tools require constant context switching to perform a single task

Inability to aggregate diverse types of collaboration data by project, task, or metadata

Proliferation of Web 2.0 content silos weakens corporate governance

Need to collaborate across organizational boundaries with external parties

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Many Collaboration Environments exist…

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Collaboration Environments are also Informational Islands!

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Unified Collaboration Environments?

Soaring costs or technical barriers for integrating silos of repositories

Many collaboration environments are Vendor-specific Lack a standard model, interface, and protocol

…especially in the enterprise domain

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Standard Collaboration Model

Provides a complete range of collaboration activities so that customers, independent software vendors, and system integrators can build contextual collaboration environments using service components from multiple vendors.

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ICOM

Objective To define the classes, attributes, relationships, and

behaviour of objects for a broad range of collaboration activities around shared-workspace teamwork, communication, content, coordination, and social networking

ICOM is workspace centric Workspace is a durable context and place to collaborate. Examples of contexts are projects, asynchronous

meetings, and libraries

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ICOM includes diverse classes of objects

Teamwork shared workspaces, discussion forums,

real-time conferences, presence, etc.

Communication e-mail, instant message, telephony,

RSS

Content text and multi-media contents,

contextual connections, taxonomies, folksonomies, tags, saved searches, etc.

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Coordination address books, calendars, tasks,

journals, etc.

Social networking articulated social networks among

users, communities, groups, activities, wiki pages, blogs, recommendations, social bookmarking, etc.

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ICOM includes diverse classes of objects

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Encompass and improve on existing standards

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ICOM may be expressed in any language

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Merging ICOM data in different languages

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ICOM RDF Model

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ICOM (RDF) Neologism Store

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SIOC4CWE -> ICOM

SIOC Class ICOM Class

sioc:Site icom:Spacesioc:Container icom:Folder

sioc:Item icom:Entitysioc:UserAccount icom:Actor

sioc:UserGroup icom:Group

sioc:Post icom:Artifactsioc:Space icom:Space

sioc:Role icom:Rolesioc:Forum icom:Forum

foaf:Person Icom:Actor

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Nepomuk-> ICOM

Nepomuk Class ICOM Classpimo:Person icom:Actorpimo:PersonGroup icom:Groupnie:InformationElement

icom:Artifact

nfo:Folder icom:Foldernfo:Document icom:Documentnco:Contact icom:Contactncal:Calendar icom:Calendarnmo:Event icom:Occurencenmo:Message icom:Messagepimo:Task icom:Task

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Use-Case 1: ICOM for consolidating workspace applications

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Use-case 2: ICOM for integrating collaboration objects with business objects in enterprise workplace portal

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ICOM Extensions

Email Calendar Task Presence Conference User Profile Community Membership

Address Book Content Forum Access Control Metadata Tags

Are you working on a collaboration model in any of these areas???

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Documents

OASIS Integrated Collaboration Object Model (ICOM)