Information sharing across multiple humanitarian organizations—a web-based information exchange platform for project reporting |
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Authors: | Stefan Huesemann |
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Affiliation: | (1) Innovation Process Technology, University of Fribourg, Fenetta 13, 1752 Villars-sur-Glane, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | This article analyzes information sharing problems in the humanitarian development sector and proposes the concept of a web-based
exchange platform to face some of the technical challenges. The “Development Information Exchange System” is a mediator-wrapper-architecture
that uses XML documents to loosely couple autonomous and heterogeneous information systems. Detailed project information of
humanitarian organizations that resides on data provider systems can be formatted with XSL stylesheets according to the needs
of the users and shared within or between organizations. The system can help to close the control loop by providing qualitative
information about humanitarian projects. This makes project management more efficient. The proposed architecture solves an
interface problem between the various partners and stakeholders of humanitarian projects. It is a first step towards a service-oriented
architecture between humanitarian organizations. The next step could be the definition of cross-organizational business processes.
These processes may be defined platform-independently with the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services. A prototype
of the exchange platform is presented and evaluated in this article. |
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Keywords: | Loosely coupled information systems XML-based project reporting Development information exchange system Humanitarian organization |
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