The Boeing Company

Juan Carlos Mendo Hernandez

Alejandro Torres Gamiz

Pieter Van Gils

Methods, servers, and computer program products are provided to link files stored in a data repository. A file to be stored in the data repository is received, via a network, from a terminal. The method includes determining whether the file has a file metadata card associated with the file. The method further includes responsive to the file having a file metadata card associated with the file: executing at least one rule responsive to receiving the file being stored in the data repository to validate the file metadata card. The method further includes responsive to a result of the at least one rule executed indicating a successful result, storing the file metadata card associated with the file and the file in the data repository.

Smart repository based on relational metadata

A method includes storing technical models in a network-accessible model repository. Each technical model is labeled with descriptive metadata and comprises one or more model views labeled with functional metadata. A request is received from a stakeholder device, the request specifying descriptive attributes and functional attributes applied to an associated stakeholder. Technical model(s) are retrieved based on the descriptive metadata labelling the retrieved technical models being determined to satisfy the descriptive attributes included in the request. For each retrieved technical model, one or more model views are compiled based on the functional metadata labelling the compiled model view being determined to satisfy the functional attributes included in the request. The stakeholder device is provided secure access to a specification package that comprises one or more viewpoints for the retrieved technical model(s), each viewpoint comprising one or more of the compiled model views for each of the retrieved technical models.

Generation and distribution of technical model viewpoints

A method for controlling versions of a model file includes determining a format of a particular element of a plurality of elements of the model file. The model file defines a model of a system. The method also includes converting the particular element of the plurality of elements from a non-text format to a text-based format in response to the particular element including data in the non-text format. The method further includes writing the particular element converted to the text-based format to a model text file. The model text file is a text-based version of the model file and the model text file is used to detect changes in the model file and to control different versions of the model file.

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Juan Carlos Mendo Hernandez