AN OPEN FRAMEWORK FOR COLLABORATIVE DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

The MEMOIR project supports researchers working with a vast quantity o f distributed information. by assisting them in finding both relevant documents and researchers with related interests. It is an open archit ecture based on the existing Web infrastructure. Key to the architectu re is the use of proxies: to support message routing for dynamic recon figuration and extension of the system, to collect information about t he trail of documents that a user visits, and to insert links on-the-f ly. In this paper we present the MEMOIR framework and its rationale. a nd discuss early experiences with the system. (C) 1998 Published by El sevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.