Method for data management in a collaborative service-oriented workshop
A method for managing data in a collaborative service-oriented workshop, which is adapted to treat objects associated with data representative of real or process data, is provided to share data and resources in an architecture of a workspace. The architecture is adapted to design complex objects and manipulate information technology objects that represent data, which may be representative of a real object or a process based on metadata representing characteristic data. The metadata includes a generic part that is common to all data, a specific part that is inherent to the type of data, and links to other objects. The links make it possible to establish, at a later time, the traceability of the data, or in other words the traceability between the different data produced or used during execution of processes.
1. A method of data management in a collaborative service-oriented workspace, employed in an information technology system, the method comprising:
accessing at least one datum representative of a physical object, which is stored in a first memory in a remote device;
extracting at least one characteristic information item of the at least one datum according to a predetermined parameter;
storing, in a second memory in a centralized database, the extracted at least one characteristic information item and a link to the at least one datum in a first data object associated with the at least one datum, the first data object being stored in the second memory in the centralized database;
selecting at least one data object representative of a process;
determining, in the at least one data object representative of the process, a link to the first data object associated with the at least one datum employed by the process and representative of a physical object; and
executing the process, wherein
the first data object is associated with generic metadata that is common to all data objects in the collaborative service-oriented workspace and specific metadata that defines at least one attribute of the physical object represented by the at least one datum.
2. A method according to claim 1 , further comprising receiving at least one complementary information item, the complementary information item being stored in the second memory in the first data object associated with the at least one datum.
3. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one characteristic information item comprises at least one attribute common to a plurality of data and at least one attribute specific to the at least one datum.
4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the first data object comprises a link to a second data object, separate from the first data object.
5. A method according to claim 4 , further comprising determining consistency of the first data object according to the link to the second data object.
6. A method according to claim 4 , wherein one of the first and second data objects is associated with data representative of physical objects and the other of the first and second data objects is associated with data representative of processes.
7. A method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
storing in the second memory, in the first data object representative of the physical object employed by the process, a link to the at least one data object representative of the process; and
storing in the second memory, in the at least one data object associated with data representative of the process, a link to the first data object associated with data representative of the physical object employed by the process.
8. A method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
creating data representative of a physical object;
creating a second data object associated with the created data;
storing in the second memory, in the created second data object, a link to the at least one data object representative of the process; and
storing in the second memory, in the object representative of the process, a link to the created second data object.
9. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the first data object is stored in the second memory in a form of at least one table or at least one XML file.
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
forming the first data object, the first data object being formed based on information items contained within a metadata set including the at least one characteristic information item of the at least one datum.
11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the metadata set includes one or more generic information items common to all data, one or more specific information items specific to the at least one datum, and one or more links to other data objects.
12. A non-transitory computer readable medium including computer executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method of data management in a collaborative service-oriented workspace, employed in an information technology system, the method comprising:
accessing at least one datum representative of a physical object, which is stored in a first memory in a remote device;
extracting at least one characteristic information item of the at least one datum according to a predetermined parameter;
storing, in a second memory in a centralized database, the extracted at least one characteristic information item and a link to the at least one datum in a first data object associated with the at least one datum, the first data object being stored in the second memory in the centralized database;
selecting at least one data object representative of a process;
determining, in the at least one data object representative of the process, a link to the first data object associated with the at least one datum employed by the process and representative of a physical object; and
executing the process, wherein
the first data object is associated with generic metadata that is common to all data objects in the collaborative service-oriented workspace and specific metadata that defines at least one attribute of the physical object represented by the at least one datum.