D13.1: Service Design

This document aims to specify the service design of the ARIADNE Portal, and provide a common vision, a user perspective on the functionality, and a framework to identify, discuss and validate the requirements for the underlying technical services. As such, the audience of this document will be both technical and non-­technical.

This service design was created using the following input: Description of Work, Task 2.1 (Survey of users’ needs and community building), Task 12.1 (Assessment of use requirements), an examination of existing portals and WP3-­‐12-­‐13 Workshop discussions. The service design will provide input for Task 13.2 (Build Services) and Task 13.4 (Acceptance testing).

The service design will provide a common vision formulated in terms of principles, derived from the mission statement in the Description of Work. This will be described in Chapter 4. The functionality will be derived from a user perspective. The users and their concerns will be introduced and described in Chapter 5. Chapter 6 will detail the activities of these users in relation to the ARIADNE portal and describe their technical impact. A detailed description of the components the project necessary for the design and implementation of visual media is given in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 gives an overview of the technical architecture with some brief explanation. Chapter 9 discusses the data model of ARIADNE that should support the described use cases.