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Basic support for cooperative work on the World Wide Web

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D. KERR,

G. WOETZELAuthors Info & Claims

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 46, Issue 6

Pages 827 - 846

https://doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.1996.0108

Published: 01 June 1997 Publication History

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The emergence and widespread adoption of the World Wide Web offers a great deal of potential in supporting cross-platform cooperative work within widely dispersed working groups. The Basic Support for Cooperative Work (BSCW) project at GMD is attempting to realize this potential through development of web-based tools which provide cross-platform collaboration services to groups using existing web technologies. This paper describes one of these tools, theBSCW Shared Workspace system a centralized cooperative application integrated with an unmodified web server and accessible from standard web browsers. The BSCW system supports cooperation through “shared workspaces”; small repositories in which users can upload documents, hold threaded discussions and obtain information on the previous activities of other users to coordinate their own work. The current version of the system is described in detail, including design choices resulting from use of the web as a cooperation platform and feedback from users following the release of a previous version of BSCW to the public domain.

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Volume 46, Issue 6

Special issue: innovative applications of the World Wide Web

June 1997

197 pages

ISSN:1071-5819

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Univ. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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