The project “The use of web technologies in the industry” has ended last week. 15 students from both: the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy, and the Faculty of Economics participated in the simulation of a real IT project in an international environment. The project was organized by the Department of Information Systems, the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH in the form of practice and continued throughout the winter semester of the academic year 2010/2011. During this time students: have balanced their knowledge of the necessary theoretical foundations, have mastered the practical ability to use the most modern tools of information technology, have established effective cooperation with the more numerous team from Berlin, have prepared a draft application, aggregated and developed the data, and also held consultations with the staff of T-Systems Multimedia. The result of the students’ work is a working prototype of a Web application in a portal built using semantic technology. The professional documentation has been also prepared as part of the work. The portal retrieves information supplied by the server in the Linked Open Data Architecture. The infrastructure of this type is now very intensively developed in many places in the world. The idea of the developed prototype is to optimize the location and visualization of the user residence, taking into account the many dependencies on infrastructure in conjunction with social roles.
The whole project has a wider context. T-Systems Multimedia is aiming to create a portal that provides citizens with an official German government raw data offered in the form of semantic description, in the future. The results of the finished project will have a direct impact on company’ plans. The intended product will be largely based on the experience of work on use cases developed in a cooperatively prepared Web applications and infrastructure. Student participants are to receive a certificate confirming the participation in the practices. Piotr Stolarski was the practices coordinator.