Let's talk: extending the Web to support collaboration

Authors:
M. Fuchs
Affiliations:
-
Venue:
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
Year:
1996

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Abstract

The current Web architecture is insufficient to support collaboration among independent human and computational agents. Communication, other than between browser and server such as among servers, or between a browser and local applications, requires exiting the Web's suite of technologies. HTML and Java are not particularly good languages for communicating among agents. We propose extending the Web to allow a variety of domain-specific little languages. Messages would be in these languages, and cognizant agents can manipulate them freely, such as display them to humans or otherwise process them. Semantics for these languages can be retrieved dynamically over the Web, providing scalable intelligence. SGML and IDL are two current systems capable of providing such languages. An SGML based Web would remain upwardly compatible with the current one.