IDEOMS: An Integrated Document Environment based on OMS Object-Oriented Database System

In this paper, we describe an integrated document management system based on the object-oriented database system OMS. The underlying idea is to replace the current vision of a le system with that of a document database system, thereby ooering higher-level user support for the management of all forms of computer-stored information and work activities. The object-oriented database system provides access to existing tools such as editors and compilers through object methods, while providing standard database features for managing dependencies between documents, queries and controlled information sharing. In particular, the OMS system supports powerful methods for document classiication independent of the type of the documents. This extended database view of a le system allows the users to handle documents at a logical level of abstraction independent of the physical le system.