Basic support for cooperative work on the World Wide Web

Integrating Synchronous and Asynchronous Interactions in Groupware Applications

“…When the operation is received in (the adaptation component of) a replica, including the replica where the operation has been initially executed, its execution proceeds as usual (by handing the operation to the capsule for local execution, as explained in section 4.2). Using this approach, it is very simple to maintain all replicas consistent: as all update operations are received in all replicas in the same order, the concurrency control component just has to execute all operations in the order they are received 5 .…”

“…For supporting collaborative edition in asynchronous settings, many systems have been implemented [32,16,26,7,5]. A common model for data access is the copy-modify-merge paradigm, in which a users gets its own private copy of the document, modify it in isolation and later his changes are merged with the modifications produced by other users.…”

User recommendation for collaborative and personalised digital archives

“…Each folder typically corresponds to one user related subject, discipline, or field, so that it may be viewed as a thematic and usually semantically related repository of data items. This environment is an extension of the basic support for collaborative work environment (BSCW) (http://www.bscw.de, it is not accidental that the BSCW development team was member of the project); see Bentley et al (1997). Users can then login in order to access their home folder or add some additional user information such as full name, affiliation, postal address, phone and fax numbers and so forth.…”

Enabling Communities by Constructed Media: The Case of a Web-Based Study Environment for a Talmudic Tractate

“…3 It did not however catch on in Hebrew literature, possibly because of the previously existing concordance-based works in this field, possibly because SGML does not support any of the Hebrew standards and no SGML-editor or -browser supports right-to-left (RTL) text. L. Barth attempted to adopt the TEI DTD for his electronic edition of Pirqe deRabbi Eliezer, a visionary project that includes transcription and tagging of all available sources of this Midrash.…”

“…An example supporting both learners and researchers in organizing materials and working together is a widely used cooperation platform on the internet, the BSCW System [3] (Basic Support for Cooperative Work). The BSCW system is used for organizing course contents or research data and coordination of learning or project efforts.…”