Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3-5 December 2007
Bringing Collaborative Edting of Open Document Format (ODF) Documents to the Web
Abstract in 50 words
We present DocChord, a group-editing web application, that supports live and asynchronous multi-authoring of ODF text documents via vanilla web browsers. DocChord, with ODF-to-XHTML transformation and social awareness aspects, is currently used by hundreds of users currently and sometimes concurrently. We describe its design, scalability, user feedback, and future work.
One Page Outline of the Paper
- Introduction
- What is ODF and its relevance
- Ubiquity, Collaboration and Awareness needs
- DocChord Architecture and Application
- Architecture
- Shared Data Model and Event Listeners
- Messaging services
- ODF to XHTML Transformation Engine
- Browser-Server State Synchronization Protocol
- Sync & Command Messages
- Timestamps and handling group undo-redo
- Legacy and Interoperability Services
- Application Description and Usage
- Technologies used
- Screen shots and how it gets used.
- Architecture
- Scalability and Usability Issues and our approaches
- Scalability of memory
- Responsiveness
- Document sharing simplicity
- Monitoring & testing approaches (refer to your paper)
- User Feedback
- The Good
- The Bad
- Future Work
- DocChord for word processing
- More adaptive memory management policies
- Off-loading more function into the browser
- New functions
- Presentations, Why they are different beasts
- Connecting to the enterprise functions
- DocChord for word processing
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IBM Research
Ravi Konuru has over 17 years experience in the software industry in diverse areas such as process-control systems, micro-kernel operating systems, distributed systems and parallel processing, Java Virtual Machines, J2EE, web services, data synchronization and more recently on document processing in the context of enterprise computing and collaboration. He has over 20 publications in technical conferences and a few patents in these areas.
Ravi has a PhD in Computer Science from Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology and has been working at IBM TJ Watson Research Center for the past 12 years. In his dual role as both a researcher and a manager, he and his team are currently looking into how document processing and document-centric programming models can be leveraged to both simplify collaboration, programming, processing and integration within and across enterprise and gain ubiquitous usage.
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IBM
Danny Yeh
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