D8.2 Software Documentation System: Back Office Services v1.0 open for public review

June 2009 version (v1.0) of deliverable D8.2 (Software Documentation System: Back Office Services) is open to public comments, feedback and review !

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Executive Summary

This document provides the description of the back office services These services neither store person related data nor serve the user directly. They provide ontologies and metadata, perform search and aggregation operations and transform data into specific formats. Task T8.3 contributes to this deliverable. The back office services are a component of the TAS3 Trusted Application Infrastructure but not of the core TAS3 Trust and Security Infrastructure.

This document describes in particular
• The Generic Data Format used to store data in TAS3 repositories
• Services to transform data from the IMS ePortfolio format to the Generic Data Format and from the Generic Data Format to the Europass CV Data Format.
• Aggregation Service and Policy Aggregation
• A Request Logger Service to store information on requests issued and responses received by TAS3 web services for rapid prototyping and debugging purposes

The TAS3 Trusted Application Infrastructure is the application dependent part of the TAS3 infrastructure. Its purpose is to provide the services needed to guide the implementation of the pilots of WP9 in the fields of employability and eHealth. The TAS3 Trusted Application Infrastructure depends on the requirements collected in WP1, the architecture design provided by WP2 and the business process models developed in WP3. It allows the application independent services developed in WP4, WP5 and WP7 to be used in the WP9 pilots.
Within the TAS3 Trusted Application Infrastructure the back office components serve as parts of the Application Dependent Policy Enforcement Points of service providers and service requesters or as stand-alone components.
This document describes
• the assumptions on which the development of back office services is based
• the services provided
• the high level architecture of the services
• installation and usage of the services
• limitations and known issues
• plans for the further development of the back office services in the next phase of the  TAS3 project.