Schedules
Some interesting new interaction patterns, and new business models, can be found by combining WS-Calendar and EMIX Terms. WS-Calendar is a specification for constructing web-services that incorporate iCalendar, the long-established basis for personal scheduling. EMIX is an information model built to support the exchange of market related information between suppliers and buyers of energy.
Service orientation names a pattern for systems interaction in which ...
At the meeting of the NIBS FMOC in Baltimore this spring, challenges in expanding the use of COBIE were again at center stage. The National Institute of Building Science (NIBS) is a public-private partnership to advance the identification and resolution of problems and potential problems that hamper the construction of safe, affordable structures. In recent years, one NIBS committee has led efforts to develop a national building information models standard (NBIMS). NBIMS is more than technology, and concerns far more than a 3D building model; BIM it is the basis for re-engineering the processes used in facility design and construction.
The Facilities Maintenance and Operations Committee (FMOC) of NIBS promulgates best practices in building operations. BIM has traditionally focused on initial building cost. Initial cost, though, is only 15 to 20%...
I use Outlook in my day to day life. It shows me an aggregate calendar, with meetings I accept at UNC (one account) meetings I accept not at UNC (anther email account) and two corporate calendars: one based in Exchange, and one in SharePoint. When I was working on the national smart grid roadmap, my Outlook showed the calendar of that SharePoint project as well. In Outlook, I can turn each calendar off or on, and when aggregated, each appointment was a different color by source. I live by Calendar aggregation.
In my Phone, which happens to be an Android, I used to have...
Recently, I wrote of standards for calendar synchronization, vcards, and directory services. This week, in a meeting on iResource, we explored the Enterprise IT perspective on the same issues. Today, I will place these two views side by side, and look for a solution.
In enterprise calendaring, conference rooms were originally added to corporate address books as if they were another person. An account was created in the corporate directory for each conference room, albeit an account that lacked an employee ID. This account was assocated with a calendar server and perhaps an email account. Conference rooms were set up Justas were senior staff that do not manage their own schedule. Anyone could invite the conference room to a meeting. An assigned administrative assistant received all schedule requests.