Apollo Protocol: 4D Activity Editor
Activity Model Development Tool
This application is a lightweight web application to produce activity models based on the principles of 4-Dimensionalism (4D) whilst hiding the model complexity from end users.
Introduction
Knowing what information is needed to support any business activity is not easy. Especially engineering activities such as product assembly and management of assets throughout their lifecycle. It is crucial that relevant information requirements can be discovered by following a standardised and thorough approach to enable good, ongoing information management.
By creating 4D activity diagrams, you are provided with the means to document the information required consistently. The information output of which can be analysed as logical diagrams or machine-readable data for expanded data integration. Well constructed activity models can aid business process improvement, information quality management, performance measurement and planning.
This prototype uses the techniques laid out in “An Integrated Approach to Information Management: Identifying decisions and the information required for them using activity and process models”. Discover the value of using data to model activities and what’s involved in creating them.
The editor is built upon the principles of 4-Dimensionalism. By design the user interface hides the theory and complexity, whilst providing you the benefits of such a comprehensive approach. This editor is part of ongoing research, and as such feedback is greatly appreciated.
The application is a next.js web application built around the editor providing support and guidance to get started. When locally hosted all data remains on the device.
Getting Started
An online free access version of the last released editor tool is hosted by GitHub Pages here.
For running locally please follow the setup instructions in the editor-app readme found here.
Examples
A series of diagram examples are included in the ./examples folder here that are supported by the tool in addition to the in-built examples.
Contributing
Contributions to the project are welcome. Please follow the contribution guidelines found here.
In brief:
- Check for existing issues or create an issue describing the enhancement you wish to make enabling any feedback / discussion before starting.
- Fork the repo to your account.
- Push all your changes to the new fork.
- Submit a pull request from the fork back to this main repo.
Licence
4D Activity Editor is released under the terms of the Apache 2.0 Licence and is covered by Crown Copyright.