ABSTRACT
The paper presents the current results achieved by the EU e-Content project CONNIE, which aims at delivering pan-European access to building regulations and standards through a network of information services dealing with content coming from 7 European countries. The CONNIE approach is original in several ways: it facilitates the use, feedback and exchange of building regulations; it is a network of decentralized portals with flexible conceptual architecture; it provides new B2B and B2C internet business models. The approach adopted to develop the CONNIE systems is based on the “CONNIE commons” (common data models, common APIs, common syntax) and IPR issues. Functionally, the services provided by the CONNIE system are divided into: core services, common added-value services informative services and descriptive services. First two support latter two that are regulation specific – providing improved regulation information retrieval, usage and exchange of not only building regulations, but also related content across EU countries. The network nodes are portals, which are completely independent but can connect, and exchange users through SSO, exchange and syndicate content, deploy and use each others developed components, and services.
