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The AusWeb series of World Wide Web Research Conferences.

Creating and managing documents with LifeWeb


Thuy-Linh Nguyen, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University Thuy.Linh.Nguyen@csse.monash.edu.au

Heinz Schmidt, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University Heinz.Schmidt@csse.monash.edu.au



Keywords

LifeWeb, document, manage, create, maintenance

Abstract

With increasingly complex enterprise demands and the explosion of the web, serious problems with the Web are showing. Among them, management and maintenance are two of the most well-known, inherent in the inflexibility, the lack of infrastructure and the missing semantic structure of web documents. LifeWeb has been proposed as an approach towards solving these problems by providing an object-oriented model with the life design for Web documents. Key concepts of LifeWeb are centred around the semantic structure of documents, and its separation from presentation and raw contents material. Selective access and customised presentations are expressed as rules of so-called activation schemes. Link accesses activate these schemes. This paper describes the underlying model and the implementation of a prototype for LifeWeb and explains how a GUI application can be developed on top of the LifeWeb engine to facilitate and simplify the authoring and management of Web documents.

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