The Intranet as an information space for Content, Communication, and Collaboration
Intranet as Content Space
Purpose
Distribution of and access to internal and external information
Applications and Tools
Applications Example Tools
Distribution of documents, data, files
- Portable Document Format
- XML, SGML
Access to databases and legacy systems Database connectivity tools:
- Oracle WebSystem
- Spider Technologies
Access/distribution of external infomation
- GrapeVINE
- Hoover for Notes (Individual Inc.)
Information push
- Pointcast
- Headliner (Lanacom)/BackWeb
Search engines
- SWISH
- Verity Search 97
- Microsoft Index Server
- Netscape Catalog Server
Document management
- SmartSpace Intranet (Documentum)
- @Mezzanine (FileNet)
Issues
- Just-In-Time versus Just-In-Case
- Searching: text retrieval, field-searching, thesaurus, metadata, browsing categories, knowledge maps, ...