THE TCE CORPORATE TECHNICAL MEMORY - GROUPWARE ON THE CHEAP

The Thomson Consumer Electronics Corporate Technical Memory is an elec tronic reference document repository used to store locally developed t echnical know-how as a set of files that can be browsed as well as sea rched. Implemented as a World Wide Web application, the Corporate Tech nical Memory is not constrained to a limited set of accepted file form ats or restricted in its indexing of binary data, due to the use of a web browser as the client software and the incorporation of ''document abstracts'' (brief descriptive HTML fries automatically linked to the ir corresponding binary files), respectively. The Corporate Technical Memory attempts to solve the problem of finding and distributing local technical expertise in a system-independent fashion. (C) 1997 Academi c Press Limited.