CrystalWeb - A Distributed Authoring Environment for the World Wide Web

Human cooperation and interaction is highly dependent on efficient means for communication. While the World Wide Web provides powerful tools for information retrieval, it still lacks support for document authoring. Distributed authoring of documents requires not only the possibility to jointly view and edit a document, but also the ability to create and share annotations. This article examines the issues behind an integrated authoring environment, and introduces a prototype for information access, telecooperation and distributed authoring in a wide area network.