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The World Wide Web offers a great deal of potential in supporting cross-platform cooperative work within locally dispersed working groups. GMD has developed the BSCW System, a Web based group- ware tool using the metaphor of shared virtual workspaces. The system is particularly useful - and already used by a large community - for cooperation between researchers in distributed environments. This paper describes the principles, architecture and functionality of the current (August 1999) version.
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Appelt, W. (1999). WWW Based Collaboration with the BSCW System. In: Pavelka, J., Tel, G., Bartošek, M. (eds) SOFSEM’99: Theory and Practice of Informatics. SOFSEM 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1725. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47849-3_4
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