Information analysis: selected readings
Information analysis: selected readings
Design and natural science research on information technology
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on WITS '92
Building the data warehouse (2nd ed.)
Building the data warehouse (2nd ed.)
The data model resource book: a library of logical data models and data warehouse designs
The data model resource book: a library of logical data models and data warehouse designs
Capabilities-Based Query Rewriting in Mediator Systems
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on parallel and distributed information systems
Modern Systems Analysis and Design
Modern Systems Analysis and Design
Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems
Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems
Professional Visual Basic 6 XML
Professional Visual Basic 6 XML
Principles of Corporate Finance with Cdrom
Principles of Corporate Finance with Cdrom
Query Decomposition for a Distributed Object-Oriented Mediator System
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Wrapper Development for Legacy Data Reuse
WCRE '01 Proceedings of the Eighth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'01)
A synthesizing framework for technology and content choices for information exchange
Information Technology and Management
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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.