GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-93-42
Title:
Intermezzo Implementation Notes
Authors:
Keith Edwards
Abstract:
A collaboration support environment is a software system which
developers can build on top of to provide more robust and flexible
collaborative operations. This paper describes the architecture of the
Intermezzo collaboration support environment. Intermezzo is a set of
libraries, servers, and conventions which developers can use to construct
collaborative applications.
Intermezzo does not attempt to provide support for all aspects of
collaborative software development. Instead, it restricts itself to
providing support for the sharing of "facilitating data." Facilitating
data is data which is used by applications and the collaboration support
environment itself to facilitate the process of collaboration. An
example of facilitating data is information about which users are
currently active in collaborations.
Facilitating data is distinct from artifacts. Artifacts are
the actual data of discourse or concern of the collaborative process. As
an example, the text document which is edited by a shared word processor
is an artifact. Intermezzo does not provide facilities to support the
sharing and use of artifacts.
Keywords:
Intermezzo, collaboration support environment, facilitating data, artifacts
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