Smart Data Channels
- Distributed and decentralized ? failure tolerant
- Independence of source format & rendering
- Active and passive data (e.g., CGI scripts)
- Getting the right information, at the right time, in the right format.
- Smart Data Channels: Standards-based dynamic optimizable Web-based information supply chain where portals are declaratively personalized by type, content, format, data quality, cost, user needs, data source capabilities, and timing specs.
- Channels automatically deliver information to the point of need.
- Insufficient tools to represent, filter, aggregate, & index
- Can’t tell when information change is significant
- No user or location-specific parameterization
- Platform & bandwidth limitations not handled