DocMan: a document management system for cooperation support

Author

Bäcker, Andreas ; Busbach, Uwe

Author_Institution

GMD, Saint Augustin, Germany

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Jan 1996

Firstpage

82

Abstract

Describes DocMan, an interactive document management system which supports cooperative preparation, exchange and distribution of documents. Document folders are shared among people, allowing for collaboration on the basis of a common information space. Access to document folders is provided transparently. Each folder contains a set of document revisions and a set of drafts currently in preparation. Meta-information concerning what is going on with folders, revisions, drafts and users is distributed. DocMan´s revision concept is based on a soft-locking scheme, avoiding both loss of work done simultaneously and access restrictions, thereby allowing users to be mobile while being periodically disconnected from any network

Keywords

concurrency control; distributed processing; document handling; groupware; interactive systems; DocMan; access restrictions; common information space; cooperation support; distributed meta-information; document distribution; document exchange; document preparation; document revisions; drafts; interactive document management system; mobile users; periodic network disconnections; shared document folders; soft-locking scheme; transparent access; user information; work loss avoidance; Access control; Access protocols; Application software; Companies; Delay; Graphical user interfaces; International collaboration; Outsourcing; Software standards; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1996., Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Hawaii International Conference on ,

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7324-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1996.493179

Filename

493179