Technologies and tools, such as email, messaging, workflow, and document and content management, that enable NIH users to access vital information resources, share information, and work and communicate effectively and efficiently with peers, customers, and the public.
Technology Architecture
Collaboration: 34 related definitions
Brick
- Desktop Web Conferencing Brick:
- Desktop Web Conferencing is defined as applications that enable Internet-based synchronous, real-time meetings with participants in multiple, geographically...
- Digital Identity/Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Brick:
- Digital Signature systems are defined as applications that provide identification and storage of digital signatures along with validation against a centrally...
- Document Imaging Brick:
- Document imaging devices can be standalone or embedded into the organization’s existing, fax, copy or duplication systems. Imaging systems take existing...
- Document Management Tools Brick:
- Document management includes software systems that allow enterprises to generate, produce, store, manage, retrieve, and distribute electronic files (e.g....
- Email Client Operating Systems (OSs) Brick:
- Email client operating systems (OSs) allocate system resources at individual workstations in support of NIH's enterprise email applications.
- Email Server Operating Systems (OSs) Brick:
- Email server operating systems (OSs) allocate system resources for the computers (servers) that run NIH's enterprise electronic mail applications.
- Enterprise Directories Brick:
- Enterprise directories list and/or describe users and services on the NIH network and are typically used in conjunction with the enterprise messaging ...
- Enterprise Reporting Tools Brick:
- An enterprise reporting tool is one that allows NIH to gain a better understanding of its operations by putting critical information in the hands of all...
- Identification and Authentication Brick:
- This standard establishes NIH Login as the required method of implementing authentication in web-based applications at the NIH. Authenticated identities...
- Instant Messaging Client Brick:
- The Instant Messaging (IM) Client is the user’s desktop-resident software that enables users to send short, text-based messages or files to other users....
- Instant Messaging Server Brick:
- The Instant Messaging (IM) Server is the application software that enables users to send short, text-based messages or files to other users. The server...
- Messaging Client Software Brick:
- Messaging client software includes applications that run on workstations and enable peer-to-peer, asynchronous communications.
- Messaging Protocols Brick:
- Messaging protocols are the formal specifications that define data exchange procedures.
- Messaging Servers Brick:
- Messaging servers are enterprise applications that run on a central computer and enable synchronous and asynchronous, peer-to-peer communications.
- Resource Scheduling Brick:
- Resource Scheduling is a utility or feature that facilitates commitment of any resource(s) (person, room, office, subjects, equipment, etc.) for either...
- Search Engines Brick:
- A search engine includes a robot or crawler that goes to every page or representative pages on a Website, or the whole Web, and creates an index. It also...
- Shared Virtual Workspace Brick:
- Shared virtual workspaces are team-oriented collaboration tools that provide services for sharing files and supporting asynchronous and real-time collaboration...
- Staff Digital Certificate Brick:
- A Staff Digital Certificate is a digital certificate that is issued to an individual staff member of NIH. A staff member is defined as anyone who possesses...
- Web Browsers Brick:
- Web browsers are programs that “read” hypertext and display it as formatted text and images. Browsers allow users to view the contents of a site and navigate...
- Web Content Management System Brick:
- Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) consist of applications used to create, manage, store and deploy content on the Web, including text, graphics, video...
- Workflow/Business Process Management (BPM) Tools Brick:
- Business Process Management (BPM) is a general term describing a set of services and tools that provide for explicit BPM (for example, process analysis,...
Pattern
- Active Directory Pattern:
- The NIH Enterprise Active Directory is a shared enterprise directory for NIH within the DHHS Forest. NIH is a multi-faceted enterprise serving a broad...
- Complex Resource Scheduling Pattern:
- Complex resource scheduling allows users to invoke their email client software to schedule resources for meetings, events (which could include a scientific/research...
- Data Reporting Pattern:
- This solution presents multiple options for data reporting at NIH. An NIH user can access NIH data repositories including individual databases (Oracle,...
- Document Management Service Pattern:
- This pattern shows how document management tools can be used to provide computerized production, storage, management and distribution of documents.
Generally...
- Enterprise Messaging Pattern:
- The Enterprise Messaging Pattern is of a future-state of a single consolidated NIH-wide e-mail system, Central e-Mail Services (CES), which combines the...
- Shared Virtual Workspace Pattern:
- This pattern shows how shared virtual workspace technologies provide formal, structured synchronous and asynchronous collaboration through, or instead...
- Standalone Instant Messaging Pattern:
- Instant messaging (IM) can be incorporated into other collaborative products such as portals, shared virtual workspaces and/or desktop web conferencing...
- Web Collaboration Solution Pattern:
- The Web Collaboration Solution pattern shows how Web conferencing and shared virtual workspace technologies provide formal, structured synchronous and...
- Web Conferencing Solution Pattern:
- The Web Conferencing Solution Pattern shows how web conferencing technologies provide formal, structured synchronous collaboration instead of formal face-to-face...
- Web Content Management Service Pattern:
- Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) consist of applications used to create, manage, store and deploy content on the Web, including text, graphics, video...
- Web Information Access Pattern:
- This solution provides access to Web information resources via a desktop Web browser. An NIH user can access NIH intranet, portal, and Internet websites...
- Workflow/Business Process Management (BPM) Service Pattern:
- This pattern shows how business process management (BPM) tools can be used to implement business processes through the orchestration of activities between...
Principles
- Collaboration Principles:
- High level statements of NIH's fundamental values that guide decision-making for collaboration technology.
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