Cooperative hypermedia systems
Kaj Grønbæk, Jens A. Hem, Ole Lehrmann Madsen, Lennert Sloth · Communications of the ACM · 1994
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 large 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 funding, is constructing one of the world's largest tunnel and bridge "links."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 databases, support for awareness among users of shared materials, access from multiple platforms, open architecture for integration of applications, portabiUty, 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].