Abstract
The increase in the production of heterogeneous and multi-source digital data over last years raises several issues regarding their management and use. Hence, users can face some difficulties in selecting the adequate digital resources and combining them to reach their objectives in a given activity. In this paper, we focus on digital resources design and management in order to enhance their retrieval, interoperability, adaptation and collaboration within an adaptive system. In practical terms, our work consists in a new method for digital resource design and management capable of enhancing their usability. It relies on RESTful web service-based methodology and platform thinking approach. We have implemented our method in an interactive and adaptive PLE to assist researchers in using and managing their digital resources, called PRISE for PeRsonal Interactive research Smart Environment. We have also undertaken some experiments with PRISE platform in our laboratory. The result showed that modeling digital resources with RESTful and platform thinking concept enhances digital resource usability in terms of retrieving, interoperability, adaptation and collaboration.
Highlights
Recent research studies prove that the rapid growth in the production of digital data gives rise to new issues regarding their management [1], [2]
To achieve the aforementioned objective, we propose in this paper a new resource usability-driven method for digital resource modeling
If the user prefers French and the resource supports both French and English versions, the system will deliver the French version to the user; 6) To automatically activate or deactivate the resource options according to arguments of the web service
Summary
Recent research studies prove that the rapid growth in the production of digital data gives rise to new issues regarding their management [1], [2]. Information system users face several major challenges in organizing and assessing the relevance of information retrieved from diverse data sources regarding interoperability, adaptation, and discovery. They express the need for a consistent environment with reliable information, which can handle data source multiplicity and heterogeneity. These data should be easy to find, easy to adapt to users’ system models, activity contexts and profiles. The system contains three main components as shown, the user model, the resource model and the process management model In this system, the user is involved in a situation and he/she uses resources to achieve his/her objective. The management of these digital resources in a situation can help the user retrieve the appropriate resources and integrate and use it into his/her situation
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