Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Distributed workflows
Areas of concern
Caching requirements
Distributed workflows
Areas of concern
Caching requirements
LOCATION INDEPENDENCE
Application can run on any node and maintain the same workflow patterns irrespective of locations of servers/workstations Use logical addressing instead of referring an object by its physical location
Achieved by creating an abstraction layer in addressing of objects and encapsulating knowledge of lower layers
Ensures the same sequence of operations for a business process irrespective of users location in network
NETWORK INDEPENDENCE
LAN may be configured on different requirements and may have different network speeds
IEEE standards/Token-ring/ATM/FDDI Twisted pair/co-axial/fiber optic cables
Applications should be able to freely move data across multiple media types and protocols
Design the system to ensure workflow integrity Single view of LAN/WAN network to ensure flexibility
Distributed workflows
Areas of concern
Caching requirements
Objects reside in the cache as long as they are needed, for longer duration if required
Network performance is maintained Scaling and Format Translation are not known until client workstation calls for the object
Distributed workflows
Areas of concern
Caching requirements
Distributed workflows
Areas of concern
Caching requirements
Following are the type of indexing methods: Object Identification Indexing Content Based Indexing Voice and Picture synchronization indexing
Annotation
Object ID may be used to link the container document or record to the multimedia objects
Indexing can be performed before/after the scanning, depending on the workflow design Advantage: Data objects can be stored on servers and media that provide most efficient storage and can be later accessed quickly using object ID
ANNOTATION
Definition: They are comments or footnotes defined to clarify a thought or an idea
Text Annotations
Image Annotations
Text Annotations
Simple
Can be added/edited/printed with or without the original image depending on design of workflow Image Annotations They are scanned image segments of the annotated text Image Annotations can be added/cropped/printed but the content of remaining section of annotations cannot be edited Annotations for Sound and video E.g marketing director after reviewing recorded video clip may record a set of comments to the field sales force Require index markers to indicate the exact location in the sound or video object where they should be viewed
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