The course exercises will form part of a mini-project on e.g. how to efficiently collect and make experiences re-usable from the semester 7 building site project.

A major problem today is to efficiently use experiences gathered during a project. Knowledge is stored in persons heads and re-used as these persons are involved in new projects. IT gives us opportunities to create meta knowledge (knowledge about knowledge, who knows what about what?) and also make computer stored knowledge easier accessible. We see everyday examples on mistakes and faults which could have been avoided especially if you are given some hints about where we problems could be expected.

During the 'Limfjordskollegiet' building project the group will capture problems and their solutions. This information shall be captured and stored by means of IT support. A similar project, SERFIN, regarding handling of technical building maintenance information is found at http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/reports/r_serfin2_5_1999.doc. See also the knowledge acquisiton and quality marking process at serfin_process

We could call the mini-project PARTNER2001, partnering experiences on the Internet.

PARTNER2000 should be available from an optional website through a conventional HTML browser. The following activites will contribute to the buiding-up of MEXIN2000

• Listing and structuring of building project and building process concepts which can classify possible knowledge domains such as geometric product model descriptions, documents, design process, construction process, building maintenance process, IT tools, etc. (exercise during the 'Application Information Models' session)
• Listing of data used in the proposed system
• categorization of actors in the experience capture process (user idenfication)
• conceptual layout of a PARTNER2001 functionality (which aspects of users work will be supported)
• Work Flow models to describe the actors/roles in the application and what type of messages that are are exchanged.
• Sequence Models describing how sequnces of actions are performed for the studied case.
• Artefact Models to which describe artefacts that can/is used (forms, databases, communication spaces, etc.)
• choose of knowledge representations (in this case hypertext and and relational database with ASP connnection to the WWW)
• continous implementation of a demonstrator

The mini-project site is found at http://130.225.55.42/stud_asp_example/semester7_2001/partner2001/index.asp and documented in this report.

September 14 2001

Special emphasis is on

• project management
• partnering in the building process organisation
• experience capturing on the partnering process
• process experience capture for use throughout the process and later projects

October 12 2001