CAENTI contributions to standards

A major part of comparative research activities carried out by the CAENTI consortium will consist in providing instruments, protocols and data harmonization at the European level. In achieving this work, the CAENTI project will need to identify national and international standards likely to exist in the concerned fields in order to take them into account.

The achievement of the so-called “CATALYSE toolkit” will necessitate the harmonisation of a set of tools and data existing in different national and cultural contexts. In the same way, the on-line implementation of the inclusion courses accompaniment files implies the integration of many tools contributing to data gathering, data-analysis in varied forms and to the publication of results. Intermediary and final documents in the editorial chain, as well as meta-data, will respect formats, norms and standards, and if they do not exist will propose compatible solutions with most common standards, in order to favour better dissemination results. By definition, tools and data currently produced are multi-platform, multi-systems, and multi-browsers. The developed software is free. Such trend, compatible with good dissemination results, will be maintained.

The CAENTI portal, as the systems of information of the “CATALYSE toolkit” will participate in the development harmonized by what announces as the future of the Web: rich clients, rich browsers, rich portals, where we can reconcile the flexibility of a Web interface with the management of the events of classic software.

The CAENTI members will take part in the work meetings organised on instruments and data standardisation. The published documents on the CAENTI web site will respect the standards which guarantee their good identification in research procedures and which allow an important dissemination by means of “syndication” between sites and portals. The CAENTI consortium will support the respect of these standards on the partner web sites.