CEN/ISSS Workshop
Furniture Portal Project
Workshop objectives
The objective of the Workshop is to demonstrate how to organise at sectorial level the presence on the Internet of the European furniture industry.
A guideline for the production of a sectorial portal and a draft database specification will be produced by an associated project and validated during the Workshop.
The scope of the portal, its contents and the target of the site will be also part of the agenda.
A model of different categories of furniture and types of products will be produced.
The Workshop aims at developing an e-commerce standardization-related trading process via the Internet, as it will also incorporate a "furniture auction" where e-retailers, businesses and consumers can undertake e-commerce activities.
The European office furniture industry will participate in the project's tasks by defining the set up of the portal and the auction house guidelines, adding the experience of a complementary sector.
The European office furniture industry will act as a test bed to start portal guideline transfer to other vertical sectors by a bottom up approach.