Virtual space serving territory and interaction.
Abstract
The presentation is going to describe the state of the art of the INTISC project. The
project aimed to offer a registration and cooperation framework for actors and
researchers involved in the topics of territorial intelligence, mapping relevant services
and projects all over the world. Wide variety IT services are available via the internet.
A lot of specific service used in research, needs authentication. If the services offered
are connected and use distributed authentication as a cloud, it could multiply the effect
of use. The federative authentication in the INTISC project is a base to enable
researchers to connect in the field of “Territorial Intelligence”. The distributed system
consists of a directory application as a signpost of the research area and the services
connected. The Cloud metaphorically contains, but in fact smartly integrates
functional and identification services. On the identification side higher education
institutions, research institutions, territorial actors and organization members should
be involve into the process of knowledge transfer and gain of development. The
authorization is an independent federative layer of the system, enabling access of
services offered in functional level. The functional services could be provided by any
partners, from anywhere world-wide. The functionality usually supports specific
research purposes such as data collection, statistical analysis, project management,
data mapping, collaborative publication, etc. This project aims to support cooperative
knowledge sharing in science and action, theory and use.