Collaboration on the Web
Tim Berners-Lee
MIT Lab for Computer Science
DARPA IP&V meeting 9 Oct 1996
Orginal goals of WWW
- Working together through shared knowledge
- Capturing group state
- Machine analysis
- see Bush, Englebart ... still to be implemented.
Plan A (1990)
- very easy hypertext editing
- brain - web equilibrium
- capture process, not constrain
Problems
- Lack of editing,
- Increasing sophistication of documents
- Lack of collaboration functions
Plan B (1996)
- Push toward easy start editing
- Push toward annotation functions
- Leverage PICS servers for annotation
- Held W3C workshop for shopping list of needs
Needs
- Share knowledge - with semantics
- Need notification of change built into web
- Structuring aids
- Better access control - trust web
- Integration with audio and video and whiteboard
- Whatever happened to group editors?
- Manipulable objects merge wiht distributed simulation?