Social and solidarity economy Web information systems: state of the art and an interoperability framework

This paper presents the state of the art on interoperability developments for the social and solidarity economy (SSE) community web based information systems (WIS); it also presents a framework of interoperability for the SSE’ WIS and the developments made in a research-in-progress PhD project in the last 3 years. A search on the bibliographic databases showed that so far there are no papers on interoperability initiatives on the SSE, so it was necessary to have other sources of information: a preliminary analysis of the WIS that support SSE activities; and interviews with the representatives of some of the world’s most important SSE organisations. The study showed that the WIS are still not interoperable yet. In order to become interoperable a group of the SSE community has been developing a Dublin Corre Application Profile to be used by the SSE community as reference and binding to describe their resources. This paper also describes this on-going process.This work is sponsored by FEDER funds through the Competitivity Factors Operational Programme - COMPETE and by National funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology within the scope of the project: FCOMP-01-0124-FFEDER-022674.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Resistance and Propulsion Model Tests of the USCGC Healy (Model 546) in Ice

Following the successful full-scale trials of the USCGC Healy in 2000, it was decided to conduct a complete set of resistance and propulsion, and maneuvering, model tests of the vessel for correlation with the full-scale data. The proceedings of the POAC ?01 conference (Frederking et al. 2001) contain several papers outlining the results of the full-scale trials. Jones and Moores (2002) have summarized the results of the resistance tests conducted at IOT. This report details both the resistance and propulsion model tests conducted at IOT; a second report will discuss the maneuvering tests. This report can be read in conjunction with IOT?s Standard Test Methods TM 7, Resistance in Ice, and TM 8 D1, Model Propulsion in Ice, as an example of an application of these Standards.NRC publication: Ye