The virtual notebook system™: An architecture for collaborative work

1 July 1991

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Organizational Computing

Vol. 1 (3) , 233-250
https://doi.org/10.1080/10919399109540162

Abstract

We have developed the Virtual Notebook System™ (VNS™) to facilitate information acquisition, sharing, and management in groups. The VNS allows teams to create shared electronic notebooks upon whose pages they can place text and images and, in certain cases, audio and video entities. Members of a team can interconnect the pages of a notebook with navigational links, making the notebook shared hypertext. Additionally special links, called action links, can be used to tie pages of a notebook to external programs. Here we discuss the architecture of the VNS and give a number of examples of its use. We also identify those aspects of the VNS development that seem to have been most important in its success.

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