1. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-1/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ Community Building with ACIS Afghan Community Information System for Cultural Heritage Management Ralf Klamma, Marc Spaniol, Matthias Jake, Georgios Toubekis, Michael Jansen Aachen, February 17, 2006 Workshop on Information Systems for Science, Cultural Heritage Management & e-Government in Afghanistan ‘06 Yiwei Cao

2. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-2/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ Agenda n Computing in post-war Afghanistan n Community building with ACIS  Foundation of a scientific community  Concepts & system design of ACIS community  System services  ACIS community hosting  ACIS community platforms n Trends and scientific challenges n Conclusions

3. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-3/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ Computing in Post-War Afghanistan n The computing history in Afghanistan (Uldal & Marjan, CACM 2006) n Current problems  Unmet high demands for Internet access and WWW  Lack of relevant education and necessary skills  Unprotected intellectual property rights  Low priority of investment for IT  Language and cultural barriers  High rates of Internet connection & communication 1971: IBM 360 in the Afghan Computer Center 1993: close of the Afghan Computer Center 2001: reopen of the Afghan Computer Center 2005: the Afghanistan National Data Center International call: $1. 20 / min. $0.35 / min.

4. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-4/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ Foundation of a Scientific Community n Pre-War Afghanistan UNESCO, ICOMOS Cultural Heritage Management Cultural heritage in Afghanistan Photographing 20011993 Reconstruction Dates Activities: GPS positioning... Diverse communities Story telling 2006 n Post-War Afghanistan 2002 2003 2004 ACIS Workshop & Community 1982

5. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-5/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ Concepts of ACIS Community n Cultural heritage management  Open cultural standards  Data source management n GIS (Stefanakis et al., Springer-Verlag, 2006)  GIS standards and spatiotemporal database n Hypermedia/Multimedia (Stefanakis et al., Springer-Verlag, 2006)  Open multimedia standards, e.g. MPEG-7  Multimedia database n Web community (Klamma et al., ICALT 2005)  Knowledge sharing among diverse user communities  Distributed client/server web architecture  User profile management  Relationships: people – content – location – system

6. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-6/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ Knowledge People Community Design of ACIS: Data Modeling UserName Name is_in Institute produces ID User Non-User ID Name Dimension Location Description Item has Content Description GeoObject Media has is_from 1 n m n Name ID Title Document isA Event isA SnapshotFieldwork ID PubHouse EndDate BeginDate Format Object isA Class has Shape isA Profile has Type Address has Person Role PassWord Source 11

7. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-7/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ Role Management in Community n User profiles  Roles  Access rights  Preferences  Presence awareness

8. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-8/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ System Design: 3-Tier Web Architecture Data XML Data Local Disk offline Relational database Multimedia database XML database Application Server JSP, HTML, Java Servlet ATLAS Web client worldwide Spatial database Web/Offline client in Afghanistan Community services Web Map Server Oracle MapViewer Map Cultural Info Media User Profile n Now: 3-tier web architecture  gui | middleware | database n In future: service-oriented architecture  web service etc. (c.f. Talk of Hans Plum) Synchronization

9. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-9/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ System Services: Role-Based Community & Content Management Role management General information Characteristics History Dates Conservation Documentation Media ReviewDone

10. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-10/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ System Services: Hypermedia GIS

11. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-11/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ System Services: Hyper-/Multimedia Site Information n Site information  Coordinates etc.  Description  Location Description  Periods n Alternative names n Documentation n Fieldwork n Multimedia n Source (reference)

12. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-12/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ ACIS Community Hosting n Database: Oracle Database 9i (updating to 10g)  15 spatial tables n Application server: OC4J 10g  Sun Fire V240 server  2 UltraSparc III i processors (1.28 GHz)  8 Gigabyte system memory  2 Ultra160 36 GB SCSI disks (mirrored) for the system  2 Ultra160 146 GB SCSI disks (mirrored) for the database  Gigabit Ethernet network connection  2 redundant power supplies  Solaris 10 Operating System n Map server: Oracle Application Server MapViewer Kit

13. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-13/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ n ACIS TikiWiki http://magritte.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:3333/ACIS/tiki-index.php ACIS Community Platforms n BSCW http://merkur.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/bscw/bscw.cgi/0/1358753 n Zope & Plone http://monet.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:9999/ACIS/index_html/

14. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-14/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ Trends in Information Systems n Spatial: e.g. Google Earth  Spatial information  Community n Multimedia: n Community software  social software  Social learning: social library, citation, bookmarking, and collaborative editing, etc.  Mobile computing n Mash-ups (Web application hybrids) TikiWiki

15. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-15/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ Scientific Challenges n Information systems  System interoperability  Data interoperability n Cultural heritage management  Documenting cultural heritage (Resource tracing)  Search and retrieval of cultural information  Delivery of cultural information on-site n Community Building  More involvement of Afghan people  e.g. Farsi interface  Community security and privacy  Mobile communities

16. Lehrstuhl Informatik V (Informationssysteme) Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Yiwei Cao Ralf Klamma Marc Spaniol Matthias Jake Georgios Toubekis Michael Jansen I5-CKSJ-0206-16/16 Workshop on IS for Science, CHM & e-Government in Afghanistan 06’ Conclusions n Motivation  Use of IT technologies to reconstruct the scientific infrastructures in post-war Afghanistan by young professionals n Approach with information systems  Foundation, design, and implementation  ACIS community hosting with community services & social software n A new era of web communities to collect, publish, manage, search and retrieve information for a better knowledge sharing