Databases at the Heart of Web - Based Document Repositories

Today, most tools for web-based information systems focus on the creation and delivery of content and, unfortunately, not very much on management aspects. Consequently, the creation of html-documents and serving documents to users worldwide have evolved into simple routines whereas managing a huge number of documents and document links is a nontrivial task. This paper will introduce databases as a valuable tool for managing content. By registering in a database objects like documents, applets, database records and scripts as well as their interrelations, the possibility of efficient content management is greatly improved. As a result, object management, link management and document versioning are essentially straightforward database operations.