THE INTEROPERABILITY DICTIONARY A TOOL FOR C3 INTEROPERABILITY SUPPORT

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• THE INTEROPERABILITY DICTIONARY A TOOL FOR C3
  INTEROPERABILITY SUPPORT

MCC-2008 CONFERENCE
Ladislav BURITA Vojtech ONDRYHALUniversity of
Defence, Faculty of Military Technology, CIS
Department
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AGENDA

• 1.About the Project
• 2.Dictionary Description
• 3. Conclusion

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1. ABOUT THE PROJECT 1/4

• A part of research project
• Development, integration, administration and
  security of CIS in NATO environment.
• The objectives of the vocabulary are
• (1) to support the C3 (Consultation, Command and
  Control) systems interoperability in the defense
  sector however, the dictionary can be useful in
  the field of crisis management, for organizations
  supplying C3 systems, or for other departments.

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1. ABOUT THE PROJECT 2/4

• to contribute to the unification of terms used in
  the MoD in the field of C3 systems
  interoperability, to facilitate the filing and
  management of interoperability terms
  predominantly chosen from available norms,
  standards and NATO handouts, and also to support
  the creation of new terms.
• (3) to provide a simple and user-friendly access
  to terms. To allow the users to discuss recorded
  terms and thus achieve the unification of terms
  in the CR defense and business sectors (C3
  systems suppliers).

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1. ABOUT THE PROJECT 3/4

• Term entry, definition and source.
• The dictionary is a web application. User can
  be registered or unregistered user.
• Roles Administrator, editor, contributor,
  reader.
• Inital vocabulary parts
• General interoperability terms,
• C3 systems architectures,
• Network Enabled Capability (NEC)
• Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP).
• C2 - Command and Control,
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
• Abbreviations.

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1. ABOUT THE PROJECT 4/4

• Information sources for the dictionary (for terms
  selection)
• ADatP-02 NATO Information Technology Glossary
• AAP-15 NATO Glossary of Abbreviations
• AAP-06 NATO Glossary of Terms of General Military
  Usage
• AAP-31 NATO Communication and Information Systems
  Glossary
• AComP-01 NATO Communications Glossary
• NATO Architecture Framework
• NATO Architecture Directive
• Methodology of Quality Control in CIS Projects in
  the MoD
• Methodology of C3 Systems Architectures Creation
  in the NEC
• NEC Feasibility Study
• NEC Global Architecture in Czech Armed Forces
  (CAF)
• Conception and Strategy of Building NEC in the
  CAF
• JC3IEDM-Datový model MIP for Information Exchange
  
• NATO Policy for C3 Interoperability
• STANAG 5048 - The Minimum Scale of Connectivity
  for Communications and Information Systems for
  NATO Land Forces

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2. DICTIONARY DESCRIPTION 1/7

• Home page of the dictionary

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2. DICTIONARY DESCRIPTION 2/7

• Alphabet index offers a list of terms and
  facilitates an easy access to them (by clicking
  on the term).

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2. DICTIONARY DESCRIPTION 3/7

• Each term consists of an entry and its
  definition in Czech and English, and quotes a
  source of information.

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2. DICTIONARY DESCRIPTION 4/7

• The terms are interconnected by hyperlinks (see
  the functional unit by transition from the
  interoperability definition).

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2. DICTIONARY DESCRIPTION 5/7

• The insertion of terms is easy the spaces for
  texts are formatted, internal links to other
  terms only by selecting the entry.

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2. DICTIONARY DESCRIPTION 6/7

• ADMINISTRATION inserting and managing users,
  history overview, administration of parts of
  dictionaries.

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2. DICTIONARY DESCRIPTION 7/7
Discussion using the dictionary

• The dictionary enables the users to discuss
  terms.
• Registered users can keep track of suggestions
  and comments concerning selected terms by
  e-mailing.
• It supports Communities of Interest (CoI).

Technology (open source)
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3. CONCLUSION

• The vocabulary is available at the address
• http//dcs.unob.cz/Vojtech.Ondryhal/slint/index.
  php
• Thank you for your attention!