I am doing a master thesis about "Requirements of a document administration
system for hypertext documents" for the Technical University of Clausthal,
Germany.
My plan is to store all documents and scripts in a DB. Some methods
shall work on the documents. Links shall be seperated from the documents
to ensure link integrity within the server (keyword: bidirectional links).
At any time given one shall be able to transform the DB into a plain
server. Another concept could be to access all documents via CGI scripts,
e.g. <A HREF="http://foo.bar.edu/gimmepage?bla">.
I don't know if I manage to implement such a system. At least I will try
to specify requirements and suggest concepts.
I am aware of related concepts like Hyper-G or some SGML applications.
My questions are:
Is someone working on similar topics ?
Are there servers using similar techniques ?
Are there books or papers (academic or commercial) dealing with my topic ?
Is there existing software, commercial or academic ?
Do Daemon authors plan to add comperable abilities to their servers ?
I'd like to discuss problems related to my topic with people interested.
I just don't know which basis (in this list ? in a list I could start
on my own ? with private mail ?) would be best.
Disclaimer: My thesis is sponsored by a company (SIEMENS AG, Hannover,
Germany). So I am moving between campus and commercial environment.
Flame me if you think this is annoying. This mail is posted to
www-talk and www-rdb. A german version has been submitted to www-de@leo.org.
Any hint will be gratefully accepted !
Virtually yours,
Ingo
-- Ingo Macherius, GCS, doing my master thesis at SIEMENS MWE, Hannover Email: inim@mwe.hvr.scn.de (SIEMENS) Macherius@rz.tu-clausthal.de (Campus) WWW : http://www.rz.tu-clausthal.de/~inim/ Finger me for PGP Key and further information.Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is the best. F. Zappa