1. CIRCA 3.x status at the EC Hans Kohl, Jean-Marie Weissenberger
European Commission, Directorate General INFORMATICS

2. Topics: CIRCA FORUM production service CIRCA clients
CIRCA enhancements and Next steps
Support
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4. CIRCA production service figures
Around 2100 Interest Groups
850 active Interest Groups
documents
Over active users
Close to requests per day
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5. CIRCA - clients Open Source distribution
66 Member States and Candidate Countries administrations have received a free license
20 different countries
21 licensees in Germany
Used by over 20 environment offices in context of Environment Agency Network (EIONET)
In total: about 100 installations
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6. CIRCA production service
Migration of CIRCA service on new server (11/2005)
The file system has been fully redesigned
A (10 times) higher speed of the network interface
Increased RAM capacity from 8 to 16 Gb.
Redundancy of some hardware components will guarantee more availability
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7. CIRCA enhancements 2005-2006 Spanish Interfaces installed
CIRCA 3.3 upgrade p20 to p24
New back-end servers
Maximum possible indexed data increased from 64K to 16M of textual information per item
'Sign in' link in the CIRCA Home Page
Faster LDAP backup
… And around 30 small improvements and bug fixes
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8. CIRCA enhancements 2006 (ctd) and next steps
Improve language localization possibilities
Security and Privacy enhancements
Copy/move facilities
Roadmap – last major release
WAI compliance (for ‘readers’)
Message templates
User management improved synchronization
Dossiers
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9. Support
For CIRCA services running at the Data Centre of the Commission and available to the whole IDA community.
Provision of help-desk services according to the agreed Service Level Agreement: average number of 250 requests per month
Provision of support services including dedicated support to new IG leaders for setting-up their interest group in CIRCA;
Training sessions; presentations / demonstrations
Nature of Helpdesk requests: Helpdesk cases were mainly user management (60%) and library issues (15%)
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10. CIRCA 3.x status Questions – at discussion point
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Informatics DG, Corporate IT Infrastructure Solutions, E-Government Information Solutions
Thank you for your attention
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