DocMan: a document management system for cooperation support
Amelie Bäcker, Uwe Busbach · 1996
Describes DocMan, 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. Meta-information concerning what is going on with folders, revisions, drafts and users 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 be mobile while being periodically disconnected from any network.