The Open Meeting: A Web-Based System for Conferencing and Collaboration (1995)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 4th International WWW Conference |
| Citations: | 22 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Hurwitz95theopen,
author = {Roger Hurwitz and Roger Hurwitz and John C. Mallery and John C. Mallery},
title = {The Open Meeting: A Web-Based System for Conferencing and Collaboration},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 4th International WWW Conference},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
: An asynchronous collaboration system was developed for Vice President AL Gore' Open Meeting on the National Performance Review. The system supported a large online meeting with over 4000 participants and successfully achieved all its design goals. A theory for managing wide-area collaboration guided the implementation as it extended an earlier system developed to publish electronic documents. It provided users access over SMTP and HTTP to hypertext synthesized from an object database and structured with knowledge representation techniques, including a light-weight semantics based on argument connectives. The users participated in policy planning as they discussed, evaluated, and critiqued recommendations by linking their comments to points in the evolving policy hypertext. These policy conversations were structured according to a link grammar that constrained the types of comments which could be attached in specific discourse contexts. Persistent actions enforced constraints on man-m...
Keyphrases
open meeting web-based system asynchronous collaboration system design goal large online meeting persistent action argument connective electronic document knowledge representation technique specific discourse context evolving policy hypertext vice president al gore light-weight semantics wide-area collaboration user access object database policy conversation policy planning national performance review link grammar
