TeNDaX, a Collaborative Database-Based Real-Time Editor System

TeNDaX is a collaborative database-based real-time editor system. TeNDaX is a new approach for word-processing in which documents (i.e. content and structure, tables, images etc.) are stored in a database in a semi-structured way. This supports the provision of collaborative editing and layout, undoand redo operations, business process definition and execution within documents, security, and awareness. During document creation process and use meta data is gathered automatically. This meta data can then be used for the TeNDaX dynamic folders, data lineage, visualand text mining and search.We present TeNDaX as a word-processing ‘LAN-Party’: collaborative editing and layout; business process definition and execution; local and global undoand redo operations; all based on the use of multiple editors and different operating systems. In a second step we demonstrate how one can use the data and meta data to create dynamic folders, visualize data provenance, carry out visualand text mining and support sophisticated search functionality. Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-56137 Originally published at: Leone, Stefania; Hodel-Widmer, Thomas B; Böhlen, Michael H; Dittrich, Klaus R (2006). TeNDaX, a Collaborative Database-Based Real-Time Editor System. In: EDBT 2006, Munich, Germany, 26 March 2006 30 March 2006, 1135-1138. TeNDaX, a Collaborative Database-Based Real-Time Editor System A Word-Processing ‘LAN-Party’ Stefania Leone1, Thomas B. Hodel-Widmer2, Michael Boehlen3, and Klaus R. Dittrich1 1 University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland {leone, dittrich}@ifi.unizh.ch http://www.tendax.net 2 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Leonhardshalde 21, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland [email protected] 3 Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100 Bolzano, Italy [email protected] Abstract. TeNDaX is a collaborative database-based real-time editor system. TeNDaX is a new approach for word-processing in which documents (i.e. content and structure, tables, images etc.) are stored in a database in a semi-structured way. This supports the provision of collaborative editing and layout, undoand redo operations, business process definition and execution within documents, security, and awareness. During document creation process and use meta data is gathered automatically. This meta data can then be used for the TeNDaX dynamic folders, data lineage, visualand text mining and search. We present TeNDaX as a word-processing ‘LAN-Party’: collaborative editing and layout; business process definition and execution; local and global undoand redo operations; all based on the use of multiple editors and different operating systems. In a second step we demonstrate how one can use the data and meta data to create dynamic folders, visualize data provenance, carry out visualand text mining and support sophisticated search functionality. TeNDaX is a collaborative database-based real-time editor system. TeNDaX is a new approach for word-processing in which documents (i.e. content and structure, tables, images etc.) are stored in a database in a semi-structured way. This supports the provision of collaborative editing and layout, undoand redo operations, business process definition and execution within documents, security, and awareness. During document creation process and use meta data is gathered automatically. This meta data can then be used for the TeNDaX dynamic folders, data lineage, visualand text mining and search. We present TeNDaX as a word-processing ‘LAN-Party’: collaborative editing and layout; business process definition and execution; local and global undoand redo operations; all based on the use of multiple editors and different operating systems. In a second step we demonstrate how one can use the data and meta data to create dynamic folders, visualize data provenance, carry out visualand text mining and support sophisticated search functionality.