COBACORE Core Features

The COBACORE Deliverable 3.1, ‘Mock-ups of interface of COBACORE workspace and functional behaviour of COBACORE’, describes the core feature set of the COBACORE platform, the underlying assumptions and information elements, and acts as a blueprint for the actual implementation of the COBACORE platform. The simple incremental step-by-step platform development process adopted by the COBACORE project is set out below:

Building on the three core domain issues identified during the disaster recovery domain analysis carried out in WP1, and upon the three core functions that were derived to demonstrate the value of the platform for the target user groups, WP3 used these functions to guide the development of COBACORE’s platform features and interfaces.

COBACORE Core Domain Issues	COBACORE Core Functions
Information Provision Issues	Support Recovery Planning & Information Exchange
Collaboration Issues	Close Collaboration Gap
Needs and Capacity Matching Issues	Improve Matching Needs and Capacities

Features can be understood as aspects of the platform that contribute to the fulfilment of the stated functions. Because of the general nature of the three functions, it is recognised that there are many ways to satisfy them.

COBACORE feature development phases

Feature set	Description
Core set	The core set of core features represent the minimum functional requirements that the platform implementation should fulfil.
Expansion sets	Incremental sets of features that build upon previously sets of features.
Post-project sets	Sets of features that have been recognised but will not be implemented during the project.

The COBACORE core set of features (a.k.a. the ‘No-Regrets list’) represents the foundation of the platform and was developed as a result of stakeholder consultations and project-internal concept design activities. When implemented, the core set of critical features represent the minimal form of the platform that satisfies the function. The COBACORE core features are as follows: