CS4624 GRON94c
Gronbaek, Hem, Madsen, Sloth: pages (v37/n02/GRON94c)
Cooperative Hypermedia Systems: A Dexter-Based Architecture
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The hypermedia work discussed here is derived from our participation in
the DeVise project at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Developing tools to support cooperative design in a variety of
application areas including Iarge engineering projects is one
of the project's goals. The primary user organization in the
Esprit projects EuroCoOp and EuroCODE,
from which the DeVise group receives partial fundings,
is constructing one of the world's largest tunnel and bridge "Iinks."
The use settings for our tools are characterized by cooperative work
distributed over time, space and hardware platforms. Cooperative
work in engineering projects raises several requirements for
hypermedia, such as: shared data
bases, support for awareness among users of shared materials,
access from multiple platforms, open architecture for integration
of applications, portability, extensibility and tailorability.
The possibility for integrating applications already developed
for the engineering domain with hypermedia facilities was a
particularly important requirement to meet. For a detailed
discussion of our use setting, the engineering project, and
its CSCW
and hypermedia requirements, see [5].
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