Practical Internet Groupware By Jon Udell 1st Edition October 1999 (est.) 1-56592-537-8, Order Number: 5378 384 pages (est.), $29.95 (est.)

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Preface

 

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Part Two: Groupware Docbases

A discussion server creates a kind of document database, or docbase, that can store a wealth of semi-structured information. But Internet messaging tools - mailreaders and newsreaders - use fixed-function message templates. In this part we explore how to build Web docbases that aren't bound by fixed templates. We'll see how to activate the groupware features latent in Web docbases, and we'll develop a complete system to create, publish, and search them.

Chapter Five: Docbases and Groupware Applications

Principles of Internet software; definition of a docbase; varieties of docbases; translating a repository format into a delivery format; expressing groupware bindings through docbases.

Chapter Six: Docbase Input Techniques

The Docbase system; data-collection strategies; templatized data entry; dynamically-configured forms; input validation; previewing records; storing records; managing metadata; message-based assignment forms.

Chapter Seven: Docbase Navigation

Sequential indexes; HTML tabbed indexes; docbase maintenance strategies; building a metadata-driven navigational system; dynamic and static versions of the navigational system.

Chapter Eight: Organizing Search Results

Docbase Web APIs; URL namespace engineering; search-engine Web APIs; multiple search engines and multiple docbases; using URL namespaces and doctitles; an abstract search-results structure; SWISH-E and Microsoft Index Server; field indexing with metadata; Mappers and Classifiers.

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Part One: Using Internet Groupware		Part Three: Groupware Applications and Services

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