DocMan: a document management system for cooperation support

A. Backer, U. Busbach
1996 Proceedings of HICSS-29: 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences  
This paper describes Do&Ian, 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. Metainformation concerning what is going on with folders, revisions, drafts, and
more » ... 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 work mobilly while being periodically disconnected from any network.
doi:10.1109/hicss.1996.493179 dblp:conf/hicss/BackerB96 fatcat:yqmrclbftvelnjjiq3ijvzttua