Web-Based De Complex Inform
Roy T. Fielding, Elster James, Kenneth Mark Anderson, Gregory Alan Bolcer, Peyman Oreizy, Richard N. Taylor · 1998
he World-Wide Web connectsislands of information, along withthe people seeking that information,from within corporate intranets andacross the global Internet, easily andeffectively. Sharing informationwithout regard to physical location has promptednew forms of virtual business and social endeavors.A virtual enterprise is an organization uncon-strained by geographic location, and a membershipintersecting multiple traditional organizations. Vir-tual enterprises can be formed within large corpora-tions (consisting of groups at distributed sites), asparts of business alliances or task forces [4], andeven among individuals working independently ofany corporate connection. Indeed, all that is neededto form a virtual enterprise is at least one commongoal, a shared information space, a means of coordi-nating users’ efforts, and people willing to share thework.The Web provides the minimum for setting upsuch enterprises by enabling identification of sharedgoals and the people who share them, by providing astandard mechanism for reading the shared informa-tion space, and by supporting coordination via emailarchives. However, the existing Web support infra-