A Cooperative Environment for Editing Documents with Workflow Technology

In the last years the Web became a great communication medium for publishing and delivering online multimedia documents. Therefore, the production (authoring, generation, transformation) of such documents became one of the most active research fields. This paper presents a web-based environment for cooperatively editing documents with workflow technology. The workflow technology provides a group of authors scattered across the network the means of guiding the authoring process by controlling the cooperative work. Second, this environment uses the most modern and promising Web technologies, such as XML, SVG, and SMIL to obtain a solution deployable world wide. Finally, we present another aspect concerning the content and user characteristics using CC/PP technology. Following such model offers not only a good description of the environment and its capabilities but defines also strategies about how some efficient interactions can be achieved.