ROLES Project Final Report, December 2002

Calvin Smith, Patrick Garvey

http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/doc-eng/projects/ROLES/roles-final-report.html

The motivation for the Roles Project was the recognition that without a common model for roles, such as student or instructor, developers for each new application end up creating a new model from scratch, resulting in wasteful duplication of efforts when there could be reuse of existing models, and lack of easy interoperability between applications, since one application's student might be incompatible with the student of another application. In order to promote reuse of components, a common XML architecture, common models for use of roles in web services applications, and apply the "Document Engineering" methodology to the e-Berkeley domain, the Roles Project has worked on creating a model for roles that builds on and is compatible with the emerging e-architecture of the university, and illustrating how this model might be refined and applied to other domains.