Nam Doo Moon, Geon Tae Ahn, Jin Hong Kim, Chun Yong Han, Myung Hee Jung, Myung Joon Lee

The KIPS Transactions:PartB , Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 269-282, Jun. 2001
10.3745/KIPSTB.2001.8.3.269,   PDF Download:

Abstract

With rapid growth of World-Wide Web (WWW or Web), much interest has shifted to develop a Web-based collaborative work system which supports information sharing and reusing. Most of collaborative works in a company or a public corporation are widely distributed. In such an environment, members of work groups require workspaces for exchanging and sharing information. In addition to those workspaces, it is desirable to support real-time messaging facility and systematic management of technical documents produced during collaborative works. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a Web-based groupware, named CoWare, which supports effective collaboration. The CoWare system is an integrated system including three related systems : CoSpace, CoDocs and CoMail. The CoSpace system provides personal workspace and shared workspace for storing and sharing informations. The CoDocs system manages electronic documents systematically, while the CoMail system supports real-time messaging facility. Basically, the user information, the user group information, and the work group information are shared among CoSpace, CoDocs, and CoMail. Thereby, the CoWare system supports more natural and effective collaboration.

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