System and method for managing community assets

• US 20090216581A1
• Filed: 02/25/2008
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hind, John R., Carrier, Scott R., Chapman, Helena S.
• Granted Patent: US 10,229,389 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06315 Needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system and method to manage a community development asset. The system includes an asset polling agent, a nomenclature taxonomy dictionary, and an asset discovery service. The asset polling agent identifies a descriptive term associated with an asset under development. The nomenclature taxonomy dictionary stores a list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term associated with the asset under development. The asset discovery service identifies a reusable asset of a plurality of reusable assets for use with the asset under development based on at least one term, from a combination of the descriptive term and the list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term, extracted from social network data.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising a computer useable storage medium to store a computer readable program that, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform operations to manage community development assets, the operations comprising:

identify a descriptive term associated with an asset under development;

query a plurality of reusable assets based on a query term, wherein the query term is extracted from social network data and related to the descriptive term associated with the asset under development; and

identify a reusable asset, of the plurality of reusable assets, for use in conjunction with the asset under development based on the query term.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform an operation to deliver the identified reusable asset to a development work environment for the asset under development.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform an operation to deliver the identified reusable asset to the development work environment as a suggested reusable asset for completion of the asset under development.

4. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform an operation to deliver the identified reusable asset to the development work environment in a list of suggested reusable assets.

5. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform an operation to arrange the list of suggested reusable assets, including the identified reusable asset, in a sorted preferential order based on a proposed best fit for the asset under development.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the query term comprises the descriptive term associated with the asset under development.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform an operation to identify the query term from a plurality of terms associated with the descriptive term, wherein the query term comprises a term other than the descriptive term associated with the asset under development.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform an operation to store the descriptive term and the plurality of terms associated with the descriptive term in a nomenclature taxonomy dictionary.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform operations to:

identify a candidate reusable asset of the plurality of reusable assets;

identify a social network associated with the candidate reusable asset;

identify terminology, from within the social network, which is descriptive of the candidate reusable asset; and

store the terminology descriptive of the candidate reusable asset in a nomenclature taxonomy dictionary.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform an operation to map a first descriptive term of a first nomenclature of the terminology descriptive of the candidate reusable asset to a second descriptive term of a second nomenclature of the terminology descriptive of the candidate reusable asset.

11. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform an operation to index the plurality of reusable assets, wherein the plurality of reusable assets are indexed based on a plurality of canonical terms.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on the computer, causes the computer to perform an operation to store the plurality of canonical terms with the indexed plurality of reusable assets.

13. A system, comprising:

an asset polling agent to identify a descriptive term associated with an asset under development;

a nomenclature taxonomy dictionary to store a list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term associated with the asset under development; and

an asset discovery service coupled to the asset polling agent and the taxonomy nomenclature dictionary, the asset discovery service to identify a reusable asset of a plurality of reusable assets for use with the asset under development based on at least one term, from a combination of the descriptive term and the list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term, extracted from social network data.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the asset polling agent is further configured to deliver the identified reusable asset to a development work environment for the asset under development.

15. The system of claim 13, further comprising a reusable asset index coupled to the asset discovery service, the reusable asset index to store the plurality of reusable assets.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the reusable asset index is further configured to index the plurality of reusable assets based on a plurality of canonical terms.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising an asset index crawler coupled to the reusable asset index, the asset index crawler to identify the plurality of reusable assets from at least one asset repository within a social network.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising a nomenclature taxonomy crawler coupled to the asset discovery service, the nomenclature taxonomy crawler to create a taxonomy associated with the plurality of reusable assets, wherein the taxonomy comprises the descriptive term associated with the asset under development and the list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the nomenclature taxonomy crawler is further configured to map the descriptive term associated with the asset under development and the list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term within the nomenclature taxonomy dictionary.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the nomenclature taxonomy crawler is further configured to map sets of terms from separate nomenclatures within a social network related to at least one of the plurality of reusable assets.

21. A method for managing a community asset, the method comprising:

identifying a descriptive term associated with an asset under development;

querying a plurality of reusable assets based on a query term, wherein the query term is extracted from social network data and related to the descriptive term associated with the asset under development; and

identifying a reusable asset, of the plurality of reusable assets, for use in conjunction with the asset under development based on the query term.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising delivering the identified reusable asset to a development work environment for the asset under development.

23. The method of claim 21, further comprising creating a taxonomy associated with the plurality of reusable assets, wherein the taxonomy comprises the descriptive term associated with the asset under development and a list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term, wherein a combination of the descriptive term and the list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term comprises the query term.

24. An apparatus to manage a community asset, the apparatus comprising:

means for identifying a descriptive term associated with an asset under development;

means for querying a plurality of reusable assets based on a query term, wherein the query term is related to the descriptive term associated with the asset under development; and

means for identifying a reusable asset, of the plurality of reusable assets, for use in conjunction with the asset under development based on the query term.

25. The apparatus of claim 25, further comprising means for delivering the identified reusable asset to a development work environment for the asset under development.