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Living Documents - Micro Servers for Documents

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In this paper, we present a concept, called Living Documents, for accessing and searching for digital information in decentralized and distributed systems. Our approach is based upon a fine-grained document concept which glues computational services, data and meta data together. Viewing documents as micro servers is particularly suited in environments where the documents’ content is changing continuously and frequently. We discuss the architectural benefits of Living Documents based on a case study of an existing state-of-the-art Web application. Following the concept of Living Documents a revised version of the Web application was developed.

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  1. Symbolic Computation Group, WSI for Computer Science, University of Tübingen, Sand 13, D-72076, Tübingen, Germany

    Ralf-Dieter Schimkat & Wolfgang Küchlin

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  1. IBM developer Works, 6 New Square, Bedfont Lakes, Feltham, Middlesex, TW14 8HA, UK

    Akmal B. Chaudhri

  2. Institute for Computer Science, University of Essen, Schützenbahn 70, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

  3. IRIN, Nantes University, 2, rue de la Houssiniére, 44322, Nantes, France

    Chabane Djeraba

  4. Department of Computer Science DBIS Research Group, University of Rostock, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Wolfgang Lindner

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Schimkat, RD., Küchlin, W. (2002). Living Documents - Micro Servers for Documents. In: Chaudhri, A.B., Unland, R., Djeraba, C., Lindner, W. (eds) XML-Based Data Management and Multimedia Engineering — EDBT 2002 Workshops. EDBT 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2490. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36128-6_32

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