Requirements for distributed authoring and versioning on the World Wide Web
Judith Slein, Fabio Vitali, E. James Whitehead, David G. Durand · StandardView · 1997
Ⅵ Current World Wide Web (WWW or Web) standards provide simple support for applications that allow remote editing of typed data.In practice, the existing capabilities of the WWW have proven inadequate to support efficient, scalable, remote editing, free of overwriting conflicts.A list of features in the form of requirements which, if implemented, would improve the efficiency of common remote editing operations, provide a locking mechanism to prevent overwrite conflicts, improve relationship management support between non-HTML data types, provide a simple attribute-value metadata facility, provide for the creation and reading of container data types, and integrate versioning into the WWW are presented in this article.