Combining Web Based Document Management and Event-Based Systems - Integrating MUDS and MOOS Together with DMS to Form a Cooperative Knowledge Space

In addition to establishing and maintaining knowledge spaces, cooperative knowledge organization specifically involves the structuring and adaptation of such spaces, taking into account existing materials and media. The open-source project sTeam, which is being coordinated and largely developed in Paderborn, allows the web-based establishment of an extensive document base as well as its cooperative structuring and use. What is new about the fundamental concept of the sTeam architecture presented here is its integration of classical document management/web content management methods with event-based approaches supporting cooperation. sTeam is thus an example of the creation of a practicable architectural concept that also points the way in terms of cooperative knowledge organization.