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Summary: CONNET - DESIGN ISSUES1
Issues in Designing a European Technology Transfer Network for the
Construction Industry
ZIGA TURK, TOMO CEROVSEK
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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ROBERT AMOR
Building Research Establishment, United Kingdom.
ABSTRACT: Integrated information systems about construction
products and information will become an important catalyst of the
global construction market. In the frame of European Union's
Technology Transfer Network such a one-stop-shop for the
construction industry of Europe has been developed. During 1999,
partners from the UK, Finland and Slovenia have been working on a
pan-European virtual technology park on the Internet - CONNET.
CONNET is designed as a set loosely coupled nodes, operated by the
different partners in the project. The nodes are integrated on both a
semantic and technical levels. The first integrates the information
offered by the nodes by providing the mapping and translations
between the meta-data and the classification systems. On the technical
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