A community-driven database for the dynamic representation of approaches, processes, methods, and tools for multidisciplinary product development

The advent of multidisciplinary product development may require a corresponding evolution or adaptation of product development practices within companies. To support this, researchers have developed various groupings of concepts and techniques, such as toolboxes or maps, which can be assimilated to static databases. Consequently, this article presents a first step towards a community-driven database for the dynamic representation of links between approaches, processes, methods and tools in research documents. Following a comparative analysis of different representations, a preliminary design of a dynamic database is presented using Unified Modeling Language models to define its architecture. A use case diagram paired with screenshots of the dynamic database presents the core functionalities, which include real-time data filtering, visualisation, navigation and modification.