CoAUTHOR—a hypermedia group authoring environment
Udo Hahn, Matthias Jarke, Stefan Eherer, Klaus Kreplin · RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) · 1990
The CoAUTHOR system provides a real-time-oriented environment for multiple authors who wish to collaborate on the production of hypermedia documents. In this report, we describe a model of hypermedia document authoring, consider the group aspects of co-authoring, and the technical communication and coordination tools we areusing as a baSis for the implementation of a CoAUTHOR prototype. The interactions among the members of the authoring team concerning idea processing, document design and generation as well as group-specific activities such as critiquing issues, negotiating divergent-opinions, and treating inconsistent or incoin~ plete specifications are shown to be fairly knowledge-intensive and thus require maintenance facilities provided by a sophisticated knowledge base management system underlying the hypermedia surface.